A question and a suggestion.

General Drippik · #1 07-05-2002, 10:10 PM

Does your post count go down when you delete a post? Also, your post count should go up (if it doesn't already) when you PM people.

Sl'askia · #2 07-05-2002, 10:14 PM

No your post count doesn't go down if you delete a post. And no PM's shouldn't count on your post count...its an almost totally different thing from the forums. Besides...how many posts you have shouldn't matter.

General Drippik · #3 07-05-2002, 10:34 PM

S'pose you're right about the Pm, postcount thing.

Sydney · #4 07-06-2002, 12:28 AM

She's right about everything.

Plus, I don't like the idea of members deleting their own posts. I think I'll change it. *hovers over to the administrator's control panel*

P.S. General Drippik, your signature is an eyesore.

General Drippik · #5 07-06-2002, 12:31 AM

Are you asking me to change it?

Sydney · #6 07-06-2002, 12:35 AM

No, I was just telling you that it's ugly and if you have any taste you'll change it by your own accord.

Sl'askia · #7 07-06-2002, 12:56 AM

*blush* aww shucks Syd...I didn't mean ta sound like a know-it-all

Spider: EGO ALERT EGO ALERT!

Oh hush you! *baps Spider on the head*

Spider: *whimper* Yes mam...

General Drippik · #8 07-06-2002, 01:10 AM

Can you close this topic Syd? It has no point anymore.

***Cloverfield*** · #9 07-06-2002, 03:03 AM

I honestly didn't think that we allowed members to delete their own posts ... but perhaps it was a setting that we had failed to set. Thanks for picking that up Sydney.

Abe Babe...

ODDBODD · #10 07-06-2002, 05:33 AM

omygod i have 1800 posts, only now did i realise.

***Wil*** · #11 07-06-2002, 06:59 AM

This is a discussion forum, not a chatroom, we should be able to delete posts if we feel we made a mistake in posting them. What if I realised I had posted something that might deeply offend Member X, but without my rant the post wouldn't contain any significant content? Or if I accidently made a double post, what good is simply editing one to read: 'Oops, double post. Sorry!'?

And my sig isn't all too different from General Drippik's, is it too ugly?

Sydney · #12 07-06-2002, 07:08 AM

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Originally posted by Max the Mug
This is a discussion forum, not a chatroom, we should be able to delete posts if we feel we made a mistake in posting them. What if I realised I had posted something that might deeply offend Member X, but without my rant the post wouldn't contain any significant content?

Just edit it. Your point, rather than working for your argument, just reinforces the notion that members should THINK before posting. Plus, some people might try to cover up their behaviour by deleting entire topics that they started, and can't be punished because the evidence has vanished.

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Or if I accidently made a double post, what good is simply editing one to read: 'Oops, double post. Sorry!'?

A Moderator can come along and delete the extra post, because that's what they're there for.

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And my sig isn't all too different from General Drippik's, is it too ugly?

Yes.

***Wil*** · #13 07-06-2002, 07:31 AM

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Yes.

Right, okay, I'll see what I can do about it.

As for the on-topic discussion, I still don't think we should be prevented from deleting our own posts. But you are the Big Cheese here, I don't have the final say.

Sydney · #14 07-06-2002, 07:35 AM

I'm willing to listen to your arguments, and I responded to each of your points. If you aren't satisfied with my answers, don't hesitate to address them further.

Dark Mage · #15 07-06-2002, 09:31 AM

Soz, but i dont know what the hell ur on about!!!

One, Two, Middlesboogie · #16 07-06-2002, 09:41 AM

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Originally posted by General Drippik
Does your post count go down when you delete a post?

Actually it does. I deleted some of my topics that I'd rather forget about (not because I was being naughty in them, but because they were old picture topics of mine, and I didn't like having my cringe-makingly rubbish pics of old up there for all the world to see), and my post count went down.

And I do think we should be allowed to delete our own posts. Nobody else loses out, and if we want to get rid of our posts, removing them altogether keeps the forums a lot cleaner than having a string of posts all with the message 'Edit: Deleted'.

And people 'deleting evidence' is fine, in my opinion, because the offending material is no longer there being an eyesore.

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Originally posted by Sydney
A Moderator can come along and delete the extra post, because that's what they're there for.

Yes, but they take their sweet time about it. I've seen spam topcis stay in place for several days before anybody does anything about them.

Please don't take this ability away from us.

dark_xinos · #17 07-06-2002, 09:52 AM

Sydney! You wouldent dare remove the delete post option!

I need it sometimes. If I post and forgett to attach a file, I need to start over, sence you cant attach to a edit.

Sl'askia · #18 07-06-2002, 11:54 AM

It does Anna? It never went down with me....odd...merk.