New Board: Edit/Delete Post

[Aladin Akyurek]

Re: Edit/Delete Post

As I suggested, you could prevent an entire post from being completely deleted, and in fact downplay the ability to delete a post. Somewhere make a note indicating that a post should only be changed to clarify or correct it, and only deleted if something is drastically wrong with it. In fact, maybe only an admin should be able to delete a post.

At the previous board, it was possible to delete a post of one's own if it was the last in the thread. I did that often enough if someone had posted a solution similar to mine just seconds before me. Now I fear some repeats...

 

[Jon Peltier]

Re: Edit/Delete Post

At the previous board, it was possible to delete a post of one's own if it was the last in the thread. I did that often enough if someone had posted a solution similar to mine just seconds before me. Now I fear some repeats...

I wouldn't fear such a repeat. I've always liked seeing multiple responses in a thread. This allows me to either try out different approaches, or if one approach appears multiple times, it gives me added assurance that the repeated response might be a good one. Especially if one of the people posting a particular approach is known for providing good suggestions.

 

[Domski]

Re: Edit/Delete Post

I agree it's good to be able to see different approaches but there are occassions when people would have a genuine reason for wanting to delete a post especially if you're a bit of a muppet like me. At the moment the only option is to edit the post and delete all the contents but this just looks messy.

 

[Aladin Akyurek]

Re: Edit/Delete Post

I agree it's good to be able to see different approaches but there are occassions when people would have a genuine reason for wanting to delete a post especially if you're a bit of a muppet like me. At the moment the only option is to edit the post and delete all the contents but this just looks messy.

Although I see Jon's point, what I meant was:

Domski at 11:00

=WEEKDAY(F2)

Me at 11:10

=WEEKDAY(F2)

I always attempted (often succeeded) to delete mine if it was the last post/reply.

 

[Jon Peltier]

Re: Edit/Delete Post

Although I see Jon's point, what I meant was:

Domski at 11:00

=WEEKDAY(F2)

Me at 11:10

=WEEKDAY(F2)

I always attempted (often succeeded) to delete mine if it was the last post/reply.

The reason I read for disallowing post deletion was that it messes up the database. Seems to me that, if DB quality were an issue, a duplicate post matters less than risking corruption. I understand your concern about repeating such an easy answer, but if you notice in the MS newsgroups, several copies (four or five, sometimes more) of this kind of response often follow a post. No big deal.

 

[Vintage79]

I think it would be nice to at least have the ability to edit the subject of a thread one has started. It can be helpful to mark threads 'solved' (or 'resolved' ) as people wanting to give advice can skip over these threads and get to the ones who need help.....like me for example hehe.

 

[Jon Peltier]

You can edit the subject of a reply to an ongoing thread, which I think is enough. I find more lacking is the inability to edit an existing post more than ten minutes after you've written it, when you've discovered a typo or other need for a correction. I've actually had that ten minutes expire while working on a rewrite. I understand why they don't want posts being deleted after they've been published for a while, but not the editing bit.

 

[Domski]

I've actually had that ten minutes expire while working on a rewrite.

This has happened to me on a couple of occassions and is most frustrating as you have no indication that the ten mins is up until you click the save button.

Dom

 

[Zack Barresse]

Just report the post and a moderator will determine if it needs to be deleted. This system is really user friendly. Just become a Mod Aladin.