Post deleting

outrider58 · Nov 27, 2017

Minuteman said:
Some folks log in while at work.

My cell phone, lately, won't let me log in. Don't know if it was the Firefox update or what, but it's been a real pain.

Art3 · Nov 27, 2017

But the question no one has asked (or maybe they did and deleted it)...just what did he say that he wanted to delete? :secret:

I heard somewhere that putting stuff on the internet was like peeing in a pool. Once it's there, you can never get it out. :innocent0

Biggfoot44 · Nov 28, 2017

Just tried , no delete option , had to leave at least one character..

fidelity · Dec 10, 2017

mpdc4511 said:
I seem not to be able to delete a post. Is this a new feature?

I am on a laptop and Ipad and can't delete under either Using Explorer or whatever the ipad uses. I don't see it under "Go Advanced". I am not tech savvy so I understand I may just be missing something.

If so, how can one delete a post?

If not, why the new feature?

Thank you in advance.

Well now we know the answer. People were d1cking around deleting old threads to affect the post counts of others. Thus we lost not only the ability to delete old posts but to edit them after a certain time period. I understand the mods needing to apply this remedy, but it sucks how we got here.

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Schipperke · Dec 10, 2017

Shades of TSA ..

swinokur · Dec 10, 2017

The no edit feature after a certain time has been around since I joined in 2009.

The no delete feature is a more recent phenomena.

Art3 · Dec 10, 2017

So now a post carries the same responsibility as every round sent downrange...there's no taking it back? :shrug:

I kinda figured it was always like that anyway.

It is nice to know the reason for this and the diminishing post counts, even if the reason is kind of shameful. :sad20:

fidelity · Dec 10, 2017

swinokur said:
The no edit feature after a certain time has been around since I joined in 2009.

The no delete feature is a more recent phenomena.

I joined in 2012 and at one point edited my Intro post several years later to remove some information.

Last year when I ran a karma, I was constantly editing the OP with updates. In fact, I have frequently updated the OP in threads that I've started to add or subtract information in the last two years.

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swinokur · Dec 10, 2017

My memory must be failing. No worries

Norton · Dec 10, 2017

fidelity said:
Well now we know the answer. People were d1cking around deleting old threads to affect the post counts of others. Thus we lost not only the ability to delete old posts but to edit them after a certain time period. I understand the mods needing to apply this remedy, but it sucks how we got here.

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We also had people who wanted to have their Viking funeral and were going through and deleting every post they ever made, thus destroying lots of content that the members here had built over many years.

If someone has 25 posts in a single thread and they go through and delete them all, it destroys the continuity of the content.

outrider58 · Dec 10, 2017

Norton said:
We also had people who wanted to have their Viking funeral and were going through and deleting every post they ever made, thus destroying lots of content that the members here had built over many years.

If someone has 25 posts in a single thread and they go through and delete them all, it destroys the continuity of the content.

As usual, the many suffer the few.

protegeV · Dec 10, 2017

Probably a needed change. Only downside will be an increase in posts consisting of "."

At least that's what I did when I double posted or thought better of an inflammatory comment.

Mr H · Dec 10, 2017

fidelity said:
I joined in 2012 and at one point edited my Intro post several years later to remove some information.

Last year when I ran a karma, I was constantly editing the OP with updates. In fact, I have frequently updated the OP in threads that I've started to add or subtract information in the last two years.

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I can see the No-Edit being both good and a problem... or at least an inconvenience.

There are times we have threads where the information in the OP require updating (the various legislative threads come screaming to mind, as well as group buys, etc).

I have also had to go back and remove PII from a post that I neglected to sanitize. It was an uncomfortable thing, I got it cleaned up, and things eventually got back to normal.

I'll come up with a 'good thing', I'm sure. Might take be a couple days, but I'll just come and edit this po.... oh, yeah....

Schipperke · Dec 11, 2017

Pretty much appearing analogous to taking a chisel to the Rosetta Stone.

DaemonAssassin · Dec 11, 2017

texkev said:
no need to delete the posts, just ran into this recently were someone edited out tons of posts fro ma thread and ruining it. Deleting does the same thing. If you need one deleted send it over via Pm and I can take a look.

There is a 24 hour time limit to where you can though.

Norton said:
We also had people who wanted to have their Viking funeral and were going through and deleting every post they ever made, thus destroying lots of content that the members here had built over many years.

If someone has 25 posts in a single thread and they go through and delete them all, it destroys the continuity of the content.

But then there are those that go back from time to time and edit the threads that were made "sticky". Without the ability to edit those threads, they will no longer be updated or kept current, and putting the workload onto site management isn't fair, nor is it right to force that on management.

swinokur · Dec 12, 2017

If you want something edited, PM a mod or Texkev. It's doable.

protegeV · Dec 12, 2017

Holy S balls. Edit is gone too? What in the actual :wtf:

j_h_smith · Dec 12, 2017

protegeV said:
Holy S balls. Edit is gone too? What in the actual

That's nothing. I went to edit a post I made and instead of the edit screen coming up, guess what I get?

The Delete screen?

Yep, three's no Delete Button, but when I tried to edit a post I had just placed, I get the Delete screen asking me if I want to delete the post.

No Edit screen.

I'm am really confused now!

outrider58 · Dec 12, 2017

swinokur said:
If you want something edited, PM a mod or Texkev. It's doable.

That's the long way around the barn, isn't it?

swinokur · Dec 12, 2017

Perhaps, but with no Edit button, what's left?

OP's can't be edited after a certain time period.

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