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Kappes Buur

Trying to delete a post

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Why the devil doesn't the forum software let me delete a post when I accidentally double posted?
Isn't the Delete Post thing there for exactly that reason?

Instead I am told that I cannot delete my own post.

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Kappes Buur said:

Why the devil doesn't the forum software let me delete a post when I accidentally double posted?
Isn't the Delete Post thing there for exactly that reason?

Ordinarily, yes, but it depends on how the administrators set up the forum software. My guess is that they don't want people trying to cover up stupid shit they've said, hence why they also dislike when people blank their own posts.

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FireFish said in another thread:

the problem with users deleting posts would be the following ;
person A posts : you are a 'censored' piece of 'chips'.
person B posts : Listen you censored 'chips' i will 'lemon' you.
many other persons jump in to flame.

Person A deletes his post, and acts as if the others started...
the wrong people get losered.

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scifista42 said:

FireFish said in another thread:

the problem with users deleting posts would be the following ;
person A posts : you are a 'censored' piece of 'chips'.
person B posts : Listen you censored 'chips' i will 'lemon' you.
many other persons jump in to flame.

Person A deletes his post, and acts as if the others started...
the wrong people get losered.

They can just remove their posts too, it's not that much of a problem.

Instead of the option "Edit/Delete" it's just "Edit" now.

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Linguica said:

Now the link just says "Edit" :P


Go back to shipping the sexy bastards in your avatar if you aren't giving everyone super mod powers.

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Clonehunter said:

Why the blazes can't we Post Hell our own infernos?

We'd then need a full time moderator to pick through the debris and salvage what doesn't belong there. ;)

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Clonehunter said:

Why the blazes can't we Post Hell our own infernos?

The continued existence of your posts is your personal hell!

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Linguica said:

Now the link just says "Edit" :P


Sorry man, are you talking about the blue link at the bottom right of everyone's posts? Because I still see this:



Honestly, I don't want to click that button, so maybe I'm missing something, but that looks weird considering we can't actually delete posts.

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Yeah, it's been that way for, what, 13 years at this point?

It's just the way vBulletin was set up to work, even if you disabled deleting posts. If I had access to the server I could probably look at the code and find a way to hide it from non-moderators, but if it ain't broke etc.

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Linguica said:

no one ever reads anything man

And if someone does read, he doesn't understand.
And if he understands, he immediately forgets.
-Stanislaw Lem

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