[DBursey]

If feasible, permitting a registered user the option to delete his or her post would allow us to zap those annoying double posts, thus freeing our esteemed moderators for more worthy endeavours.

[wlonh]

hear! hear! capital idea, but am not sure this BBS softw can allow for that... i just do not know, but the big guys will...

[andi*pandi]

I second this.

[Gregg]

Or, if you see you've made a double post, you could edit one of them out.

[Misha]

Yes, UBB supports this feature. The reason why we don't enable it is to avoid having users delete their posts when they say something in error, are proven wrong, etc... such an action would disrupt the thread as users haven't read it yet would be lost as to why JoeSchmoe was telling JillSchmoe to do XYZ when JillSchmoe apparently didn't post anything.

[wlonh]

perfect reasoning and it makes perfect sense... good on ya, Misha...

[DBursey]

That also occurred to me ... perhaps if the 'delete' feature could be disabled once another reply had been posted to follow yours. In other words, only the most recent post to a given thread would be deletable by the user.

Of course, at this point, I'm most assuredly dreaming in vivid technicolor!

[Evangellydonut]

hehe, yes, kinda like Solitare, where you can only move the top-most card, in this case, delete the last msg inorder for the 2nd to last to be deleted...that'll be funny, seeing posts like "Hey XXX, delete your reply after I delete this post tomorrow, so I can delete that original msg I posted"....oy...

[The Godfather]

Originally posted by Evangellydonut:
hehe, yes, kinda like Solitare, where you can only move the top-most card, in this case, delete the last msg inorder for the 2nd to last to be deleted...that'll be funny, seeing posts like "Hey XXX, delete your reply after I delete this post tomorrow, so I can delete that original msg I posted"....oy...

One little flaw: if XXX is asked to delete his/her last reply, he/she wouldn't be able to do it because the last reply is now the "Please delete" request.

Unless the request was done personally by email. Better yet, in a new forum topic "Message deletion forum" !!!

About Misha's reasoning: there wouldn't be too much difference between disabling the "Delete Message" feature and disabling the "Edit Message" feature. They both are useful because they allow people to retract flames, insults and ****-ups, seconds after hitting the "Submit" button.

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See what I am saying? I didn't understand what 'donut was meaning with his reply and I surely ****ed-up with my "you are flawed" comment. I would use now the delete checkbox but I can't.

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[bizzare]

Originally posted by Misha:
...The reason why we don't enable it is to avoid having users delete their posts when they say something in error, are proven wrong, etc...

Can't users just edit their entire posts with a "..."?


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[wlonh]

yes, they can and do... and then someone like me comes along and deletes it...

[DBursey]

You are correct sir! That is indeed the way it's done.

My idea was to facilitate the complete removal of an unintentional post, for asthetic reasons if nothing else. A trifling matter I suppose.

Misha's point regarding the removal of posts from the body of the thread was well taken. Doing so would certainly disrupt the flow of the thread.

Perhaps the best way to avoid a double post would be to close the window once the post has been submitted. Using the 'back' button could not then resubmit the post.

[wlonh]

BINGO! Robert's yer relative! kill the window, don't double-post...


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[slboett]

I can predict with certainty that Lon will now answer this post and try to make me look bad - see the dangers here???

Sorry, back atcha man- I had to do this one!

Scott

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[wlonh]

who luvs ya baby? (sorry slboett, i HAD to do it, the DEVIL himself made me!) the instance i recall, to be VERY clear, is one time that i went back and edited MY OWN post's content... not yours nor someone else's... though i have had to edit other posters posts, like just today someone (NOT slboett) was advocating piracy of iMovie2... naughty naughty...

slboett, so glad we are friends now *whew*, which reminds me, i need to call you from the batmobile as i cruise around Gotham...

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[The Godfather]

Best protection for that is to use the "Reply with quote" button



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