Why can we not delete our own posts?

[Xendance]

I post things, then I think it was pretty retarded, so I wanted to delete it. The only thing I can do is edit the post and tell people to ignore it, but I'd rather delete it.

Can we expect this, or can we expect a big fat no by Pi?

 

[Ennui]

I can't remember because I've had the moderator controls for forever now, but I'm pretty sure if you edit in Advanced mode, you can delete the post via a seperate form above it.

 

[Asknoone]

Exactly.

 

[Xendance]

it's too easy to abuse
take responsibility for what you post or don't post at all

May I ask... how is it easy to abuse? What abuse does it get?

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Someone could make a highly inflammatory post, seen by lots of people, and then delete it.

 

[Xendance]

What fool would do that?

D:

 

[Munro]

You can delete your own posts, but only for a few minutes after you've posted it. The time limit is there to stop people doing as PiMuRho says.

 

[Xendance]

You can delete your own posts, but only for a few minutes after you've posted it. The time limit is there to stop people doing as PiMuRho says.

Can we? How?

 

[Sulkdodds]

I?ve been able to delete my own posts since I became a staff writer HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

EDIT: To delete your post, you click the ?edit? button and then click delete. Or at least, that?s how it works for me.

 

[The Brick]

TEST OH SHIT I PRESSED THE post button.


edit: I don't see it anywhere.

 

[Qonfused]

Testing.

Edit: Yeah, I def. don't see it.

 

[Planetary]

More testing let's see.

Nope, nothing stands out.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

I'm pretty sure our executive members or normal members can't edit their own posts it's only staff that can. To be honest, it's not needed that much. Just think about what you post, if you go wrong edit it. In fact if you want to pull out your post completely, remove the content and just put in 'please delete', and report to the post for us to act and remove it. Simple as.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I guess Munro was wrong lol.

 

[Qonfused]

lol

 

[Xendance]

Ah see, I was right! Hooray!

@Glenn: wouldn't it be better if we saved you the struggle, and deleted our own posts instead of asking you?

 

[Munro]

Damn.

I thought we had that feature but obviously we don't. I'll try and write a little hack to enable it soon.

 

[ríomhaire]

Expect some more down-time, lads

 

[MorganFreeman911]

Seeya all in half a year!

 

[The Monkey]

Someone could make a highly inflammatory post, seen by lots of people, and then delete it.

You can just edit it if it's offensive ATM, so I don't see what the big difference is.

 

[Hot Soup]

This is at least the 4th or possibly 5th thread I can remember asking this question going all the way back to '03 and the answer in those threads is the same one already given here.

As for editing, well yes you can edit your own posts but not indefinitely. The edit time limit is currently much more generous than it used to be, I remember we played with 15 and 30 minute time limits a few years ago and that helped greatly in combating the spam and other stuff. The forums have well, "matured" since then but the lack of own post deletion and edit time limit won't be going any time soon

 

[Steel.Inferno]

lolol testing.

Being able to delete after only a few minutes is fine. Dealing with double posting, for example.

 

[Jintor]

That seems to generally work ok...

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Oh wait, I WANT THIS DELETED.

That was easy...

Although technically spam too, so watch yourself!

 

[Hot Soup]

to be fair his first post was

:naughty:

 

[Xendance]

to be fair his first post was

:naughty:

I can only see an edit button on my last post in the thread. I guess thats neccessary.

 

[Hot Soup]

That'll be the edit timelimit I imagine

 

[Xendance]

That'll be the edit timelimit I imagine

Edit time of 2 days?