Deleting a Post

[Gaines Hillix]

If I want to delete one of my own posts, how's it done?

[chad shaver]

:twisted:

[Deuce]

No - another example of the 'improvement' of this new board is that once someone posts after your post, it is automatically (and wrongly) considered to be a Reply to your post, and at this time, we lose the option of deleting our own posts. This means that if someone posts 20 seconds after your post, you can no longer delete your post - the 'x' suddenly disappears. Even if the post that follows yours does not relate to your post in any way, it is considered a 'Reply' to the previous post (your post). For example, chad could have deleted his post above until I posted this post. As soon as I posted this post, he can no longer delete his post. Make sense to anyone? Not to me.

On the old board, each post had its own Reply button (rarely used), and so, as long as no-one replied directly to our post by using the Reply button, we could still delete our posts for as long as the thread was active. This is how it should be.

Gaines, the best you can do is to click on 'edit' in your post, and then just remove all the words. The post will remain in the thread, but it will be empty - no words.

[Verbal_Kint]

[quote="Deuce"]

On the old board, each post had its own Reply button (rarely used), and so, as long as no-one replied directly to our post by using the Reply button, we could still delete our posts for as long as the thread was active. This is how it should be.
[quote]

I don't agree with you. Having the option to delete a post after someone has responded to it gives one the option to take back his words without leaving a trace. That is not a good situation IMO.

Marnix

[python]

[quote="Deuce"]

On the old board, each post had its own Reply button (rarely used), and so, as long as no-one replied directly to our post by using the Reply button, we could still delete our posts for as long as the thread was active. This is how it should be.
[quote]

I don't agree with you. Having the option to delete a post after someone has responded to it gives one the option to take back his words without leaving a trace. That is not a good situation IMO.

Marnix

Agreed. This is the STANDARD way messageboards work. Why would you want to let someone delete their post after someone else has provided their input on the thread? It simply does not make sense.

[amarone]

I agree 100% with Marnix and python.

[chad shaver]

Please look at my post above. I was able to change it, but evidence that I posted cannot be removed. It helps to understand the context of the thread and the subsequent posts.

Last summer, someone basically flamed Hawaii and another poster in the Pro Player section. I posted a response to the "flamer". Said poster subsequently deleted his/her post, and my response then appeared to be directed at Hawaii, who didn't take well to it at all. Not a good situation.

[precision response]

I too agree 100% with Marnix and python.

[@wright]

If posts are more permanent, then we are more likely to be careful what we say.

[topspin]

modified this message for test purposes

[Verbal_Kint]

If/when you do that everyone will see that 1) you posted something, 2) you edited your post and 3) you removed al your text.

If/when I see an empty post that would probably tell me enough if there was some commotion about it.

Marnix

PS: I think the moderators should do things this way as well. So no removing of complete posts, just taking out the 'unlawful' text and saying what was wrong about it.

[python]

yes but can't you still go in and delete all your text???

sure you can. but there's still the 'evidence trail' left which shows you've edited your post... which can be incriminating to say the least...

[topspin]

hmm looks like i was able to modify my text above withouth the old text being quoted

[python]

hmm looks like i was able to modify my text above withouth the old text being quoted

I don't think anyone claimed the old text would be quoted, topspin. Just that it would show that you've edited your post, which indeed is true.

[topspin]

yup i realized that, well it's ok this way but would be even better if it would allow someone to view the old text, but it's fine like this too

[Deuce]

Why would it be better if it allowed people to view the old text? If that were the case, the edit function would be pointless.

I maintain that we should retain the opportunity to delete our own posts. Although I agree that the way it currently is may (should) result in people being more careful with what they post, I still think that if someone posts a post, and then, for whatever reason, reconsiders posting it after it's been posted, we should have the right to remove it, AS LONG AS NO-ONE HAS REPLIED DIRECTLY TO IT. If someone posts about Mickey Mouse 20 seconds after I post this, and I decide that I shouldn't have posted this, I can't remove my post - even though the post which follows mine has no relation at all to my post.

The problem is that with this new board, it assumes that ALL POSTS are Replies to the post before - when, in truth, this is usually not the case. The old board did not make this erroneous assumption.

In the situation chad cites, where 'Hawaii' was 'flamed' (the poster, not the state), it is probable that TW are the ones who deleted the flaming post, thus making it appear that chad was the one flaming Hawaii. This will continue to occur on these new boards with this system - unless, when TW deletes a post, they only erase the contents (or the abusive contents), and leave 'evidence' of the post intact.

But I still say that we should be able to reconsider and delete OUR OWN posts if no-one has replied directly to them.

[Gaines Hillix]

I still think we should be able to delete a post if we authored it. No one is perfect. I know I deleted a few on the old board after reconsidering what I said and they weren't flames by any means. Of course, editing can correct mistakes but as long as it's not abused I think the option should be there to delete ones own posts.

[equinox]

i agree with gaines.

[Dedans Penthouse]

I wanna go back to the old board. It was fun and the TW cyber-cops weren't so trigger happy in deleting threads the way they are now. :-(