I want to delete some or all of my posts

I think you can make that request but not sure. I have seen some leave and ask for their post to be removed and most of them are.:type: peace,

 

Perhaps editing out some content or asking your user name to be changed and your pic deleted would be a better choice, if your wish is to be unassociated with what you have said.

When you have a number of posts and you delete them, it often ruins the threads and makes things illogical. There are also posters who will have quoted you, and in that case it messes up their posts too. So it's not just having your posts deleted, it would mean messing up other people's posts and threads and increasing the work of those who archive.

That would be pretty unfair if you think about all that's involved!

 

that's true Gina. I'm a moderator on another board. We don't have a time limit on edits and we had a little lady go back and leave all her posts blank. made for some odd threads that we decided to delete. But all the sharing and good ideas that had been done were also lost.

 

Deleting a post

As administrators and moderators do not read every post, a member should be able to delete a duplicate. Beyond that we should have to live with our own mistakes, even though some are typing errors, leaving out a word that completely changes a meaning, or myriads of other mis-steps, and trust others will understand.

But should we be enlightened with a better understanding, we should acknowledge our past stance was a stepping stone to the greater light, leaving our posts as presented. Get rid of the duplicates.

 

Take it to PM with an admin. vB makes deleting all posts by users easy with prune by username, so it's really only a question of policy. A lot of forums don't do this since forum discussions and content are fundamentally built upon each post by its contributors. When one requests their posts be deleted, it leaves a void in every discussion that user participated in.

 

Thanks for the input Squire Robertsson, and Kubel. Perhaps we are talking about two different things. On occasion I have posted (and thinking the post did not go through) posted the exact same post (a duplicate) within a 2 or 3 minute period, as the program would "hang", not showing a post was made. All that post does is taking up space, and adds to a members post numbers. Since it says exactly the same thing there is not a void in the discussion, and no one is trying to take back anything they have said.

However, thus far with this new program this has not happened (at least to me).

 

I agree with most of the posts in this thread, in that if you are allowed to delete any post you want to, it would lead to conversations that are choppy and hard to understand.

I don't think anyone should be able to delete, all of their posts. I think they should PM a moderator of that forum and explain to them what you want to delete and why.

If there is a good enough reason, then maybe it should be granted, if not then the post would stay. Maybe there would be a way for the Moderator to note the post so others will know the original poster was misrepresented.

Unless there is a good reason other than 'because I want to', I don't think a post should be edited/deleted.

Genesis12, Have you PM'ed the Moderator of the forum where you post is and asked them to allow you to edit it? Do you have more than one post to edit?



Jamie

 

We've all been misunderstood -- some more often than others. Some posters seem like flypaper for the worst.

And sometimes there just aren't enough words, space, or time to give justice to what we really meant.

 

Is there some way to leave the posts and delete all traces of origin?