If other people post important information and you delete the thread, all that subsequent information is lost.
Not to sound wise@$$, but once you post on the forum, the thread is no longer yours - it belongs to the forum. If other people post important information and you delete the thread, all that subsequent information is lost.
Not to sound like a wise-ass, but coming from an IT background, there's a lot to be said for people being able to delete their own threads. If everyone on this site did some basic housekeeping, and deleted old threads that were no longer relevant, I'm sure the amount of server/storage space would be significantly reduced.
I also don't believe in the "belonging to the forum" part. If I want to throw my teddy bear out of the crib, and take all my posts elsewhere, surely that's my right? It sounds too much like Facebook, where every picture you post becomes their property. That's one of the reasons I don't do Facebook.
Lee.
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I also don't believe in the "belonging to the forum" part. If I want to throw my teddy bear out of the crib, and take all my posts elsewhere, surely that's my right? ...
Lee.
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I guess what I am saying is that if the ability to delete a thread is to fix a honest mistake I am all for it. But honestly (Hah Hah A Pun) how often does that really happen ?? Moderators can handle this for now.
Did you think that refraining from asking would keep the mods from remaining unaware of the post in question?It just did and I'd rather the moderators not know about it. I'm just gonna let it sit there and rot until I get my delete powers back.
Did you think that refraining from asking would keep the mods from remaining unaware of the post in question?
Personally, I prefer that someone ask, than let something sit there, out of, what, hubris?
But that's just me.
Not to sound wise@$$, but once you post on the forum, the thread is no longer yours - it belongs to the forum. If other people post important information and you delete the thread, all that subsequent information is lost.
The precedent is there - Lansing Forum has a 24 hour limit on Posts -
after that, no edits and no deletes.
You post supportive tech stuff, or childish comments - it will live on forever.
For the fee of $25.00 you will not only help in supporting one of the best sites around but also get the following features:
New forums only for Subscribers
Increase PM capacity to 1500 ( 150 for Reg members )
Increase picture storage to 200 meg ( Reg members get 30 meg )
User Album, 2.5 megabytes
Ability to delete your posts
larger signatures
Change color of name
Use of animated gifs
Set yourself to be invisible to the rest of the board.
Hiya,
Yah what a rip off this place is.
I can't contain the sarcasm actually.
Frannie
Wow!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, just in case you didn't know. If we don't post issues and problems with this new site, how is anything supposed to change?
Lee.