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Delete post?

E Randy Dupre

18:24 / 19.06.01

Option open to forum leaders only?

Tom Coates

22:30 / 19.06.01

I got a bit concerned with the delete post facility recently when one of our number considered deleting his first post in a long thread, which would have resulted in the loss of everything everyone else had written. I figure that you can remove all the content from a post without deleting it - and if you want it deleted, there will be peopel around who can do that for you.

But again - this is up for debate if people are comfortable having their posts disappear because of an over-eager self-censorer...

QUINT

23:04 / 19.06.01

I am embarassed - I wrote a stupid thing in the 'one word' thing and now I can't make it go without leaving a big [message was edited' and I feel like I have messed up the cool bauhaus line of the thing.

But I cannot make it go away.

Jack The Bodiless

08:54 / 20.06.01

Yeah, ditto.

I thougt only the person who created the topic could delete a topic by acting as you've described. If that's the case - it's his thread, it's his right. We've clearly established over time on this board that the thread starter has certain ownership rights to the thread itself. And I want to be able to delete posts that I come back to and disapprove of, without asking my mummy first.

E Randy Dupre

16:57 / 20.06.01

I was thinking more along the lines of helping to cut down on double-posting and repetition of topics, but those mentioned above are also good enough reason to reinstate that ability to self-delete.

Tom Coates

10:26 / 21.06.01

Is that always true? Tannhauser started the Oxbridge thread a while back - it got to six pages, and because he felt awkward about it considered deleting the lot. From my perspective a LOT of other people had written on that thread - invested time and effort in putting their thoughts down online. Should that thread be deletable according to the whim of the person who created it?

E Randy Dupre

17:21 / 21.06.01

Tann changed his mind after a little persuasuion, though. I can see your point, but it's not happened all that often - Weaken The Stronghold being the only example I can think of, and that had descended so far into farce that I think everyone was secretly relieved when it disappeared.

Plus, the fact that there's now another thread devoted to this topic sort of proves my point about repetition.

E Randy Dupre

18:54 / 28.06.01

I hate to have to tell you this, but he already has

rizla mission

10:46 / 29.06.01

...already has what?...

deletia

10:55 / 29.06.01

To speak in his absence, Tannhauser, if I recall, was asked to delete the thread, and subsequently asked not to delete the thread. If there was an agreed stay of execution - say two days after the desire to delete was stated - where people could either keep the thread for themselves or request that it not be deleted, or excerpt interesting bits to use as basis material for spinoff threads, would that be OK.

But yeah, mainly I'd like to be able to self-delete because of double posting. Can you, as a compromise, enable the deletion of posts but not threads, or the deletionof posts *and* threads, but only in the Conversation?

Axel Lambert

11:47 / 29.06.01

Also, a while back Tannhauser tried to have me delete an entire ('warren ellis') thread started by me. Without getting into the (harsh and now better forgotten) discussion there, I too felt it was a strange police letting thread starters delete other people's messages.

Jack The Bodiless

10:08 / 07.07.01

Again - it's his thread, it's his right.

I once posted a long and involved buddhafest on one of the Greenland Posse threads explaining the nature of man and God, taking you step by step through what it meant to immanentise the eschaton, and how to trigger orgasm in male or female using the Power of your Mind... Luckily, once I realised that none of you were Ready for this information, I was able to delete the post.

Can you imagine what would have happened if that information got into the wrong hands?

Tom Coates

12:17 / 09.07.01

Wow. Yeah!

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