Deleting a Thread

YeatsCounty

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere already.

I've just noticed that I can delete any reply I make to a thread, but I can't delete any of my threads. My first post on the thread doesn't have a 'Delete' option when I click 'Edit'. Just wondering about the motivation behind this.

Stark

I think it's because if you delete your thread, you also delete everyone's replies to your thread.

seamus

Once someone replies to your thread, it's no longer "yours" so you can't delete it anymore.

The only usual reasons why any thread should be deleted is if it's spam, porn or a duplicate. Very rarely are threads deleted for any other reason.

CuLT

I'm all about deleting threads. In fact, I've gone bakc and deleted every thread of mine that's more than three weeks old.*

Yes, I post over a thoasand posts every week.*

When they made up the word "awesome" it was because it was the only way to describe my good self.*






*may be a lie

YeatsCounty

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks Stark and seamus.

CuLT: Thank you as well Sarcastro

Hobbes

Also after a set time you will no longer be allowed delete your post, and then not even allowed edit.

Some bright spark wrote a program that mass deleted thier posts, so they stopped it and they changed the program to mass erase thier posts which totally screwed up the context of 100's of threads.

Bard

I dunno... I made a thread in the "Upgrade" forum letting Cloud know that the blogs weren't working again yet (at the time), but then noticed (within a minute or two) that it was on his to-do list. Nobody had replied to the thread yet so I tried deleting it, but found no option to do so...

seamus

Bard wrote:

I dunno... I made a thread in the "Upgrade" forum letting Cloud know that the blogs weren't working again yet (at the time), but then noticed (within a minute or two) that it was on his to-do list. Nobody had replied to the thread yet so I tried deleting it, but found no option to do so...

Yeah, I think that's a software limitation. I don't think there's a setting in vB that allows you to say "Users can delete threads if there are no replies".

Best bet in that scenario is to edit the thread to say "Please delete" or something. I'll usually remove any empty threads marked in that way.

YeatsCounty

Hobbes wrote:

Also after a set time you will no longer be allowed delete your post, and then not even allowed edit.

Some bright spark wrote a program that mass deleted thier posts, so they stopped it and they changed the program to mass erase thier posts which totally screwed up the context of 100's of threads.

I see the reasoning behind it, I like the security-conscious reason. You don't want a situation like the one you described to appear on Boards. :-/

YeatsCounty

seamus wrote:

Yeah, I think that's a software limitation. I don't think there's a setting in vB that allows you to say "Users can delete threads if there are no replies".

Best bet in that scenario is to edit the thread to say "Please delete" or something. I'll usually remove any empty threads marked in that way.

I was thinking about the same thing that Bard mentioned, it's a pity that vBulletin doesn't have that implementation.

I'll know what to do from now on.