What's the point?

Bard

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Bard

What's the point in removing someone's ability to delete their own post if they can just do what I did with my post just now (above)?

Not trying to restart an argument... not saying I'd prefer it the other way... just curious as to what people think.

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Bard

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GreenHell

Would it be possible, like if someone starts a thread and then deletes there first post would the thread remain.

I think I would a decent feature to have, but in a heated debate you'd look quiet the dumbass is someone deleted the post you were replying to.

Bard

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SantaHoe

I think it's pretty crappy to not be able to delete your own posts... a feature I miss sometimes.
It comes in very handy when you've made a double post, or have gotten completely the wrong end of the stick, and want to delete your post before anyone reads it and finds out what a total nutter you are.

And what's wrong with someone deleting a thread they started?
As far as I can see, it's never really been a problem in all the years its been enabled.
Why only lately?

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Hobbes

The option was removed because some mongs in the audience (you know who you are) felt that if the thread wasn't agreeing with them they would delete the whole thread erasing other peoples posts.

This way you can still delete your own comments, you just can't delete other peoples.

bubbles

I think the ability to delete your own threads within an hour of posting them would be great. Just in case you make a mistake.


Or how about being able to delete them if there are no replys yet?

MiCr0

he's back!!!
we all knew he couldn't stay away

amp

Well Bard, I think you know why. Remember a certain thread on humanties (afaik)? You posted some inflamitory stuff and then you deleted your post which, because it was the first post, deleted the entire thread, including perfectly valid posts by other innocent (or not) poster.

This is a problem with the UBB code (again afaik) and rather than have people who iniate posts, not like the way the thread us going and delete their first post and consign other members opinions into the trash it came to pass that no posts could be deleted by non-mods/admins.

Surprised you've forgotten already Bard, usually your fairly anal about this sort of stuff

Speaking of anal, nice to have you back Bubbles

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amp

Ah Bard you know I wuv you

What I was getting at is that while the ability to delete ones own posts is desirable, it isn't currently possible without the possibility of deleting the whole thread (DeV/Cloud correct me if I be wrong)

Better to have a blank looking post then an entire thread dead by accident(or intention) IMHO. And until there is a technical way around that we're stuck with it.

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Lucutus

This is an issue that has been resolved already, currantly no damage can be done to other peoples postings when you delete your own. It's not perfect atm, but there's some decisions to be made on other functionality of boards.ie, (and the underlying system), before Cloud and Dev etc look into making the 'perfect world' as regards this and other things. Be patient and all will be fixed in time.

For the time being, you can edit the content out of your posts, while it might throw a thread out of context or just look plain wasteful/messy, at least it doesn't delete other peoples postings, which they might have spent time and effort on to make their point, hence giving you power over the direction of conversation.

Luc

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by amp:
Ah Bard you know I wuv you
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*giggle*

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

Bard

I haven't forgotten actually, amp.

I've only looked for peoples opinions - never said I personally disagreed with the delete option no longer being available.

My take on it is that the delete option should be available, but only within a very short time after the post has been made (5 or 10 minutes for example) - and that it shouldn't be available at all in the case of the first post in a thread - that way it's far less likely to screw up the flow of a thread or to cause problems like what we had with that thread you're referring to.

As for your comments about me being 'anal', - while I honestly couldn't care less that that's your perception of me, I can't say I'm pleased that it is. It's unfair to judge someone purely through what you see on a medium like this. If you actually knew me, you'd probably think quite differently. Anyway... nevermind ...

Welcome back bubbles.

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Bard

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'First motorbike in the bible ???? ---- a Triumph --- 'Yea verily Moses struck down the ammmanites and all the land heard the roar of his triumph !!!'

PHB

Couldnt we have the ability to delete non topic start posts?

b20uvkft6m5xwg

if the delete option exists it makes everthing thats posted after it totally irrelavant.

Possibly it might be allowed only if theres nothing posted after the post in question

Neway- the edit option does the trick

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b20uvkft6m5xwg

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:
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Its this really great place to play in Dublin

Eddie Vedder quote from a joke he told @ the Pearl Jam concert last year

[sorry lads I couldn't resist!]

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