Strange forum behaviour

[Clarkkent]

In the "Travelling to/from France" I entered a comment and immediately decided that to make it clearer it needed slight modification. After editing and reposting the entry I noted that a new post - not an edited post - had been entered. When I tried to delete the first posting - which did not adequately reflect what I wanted to say - I found that the time available to do this had expired and that I should seek permission from the moderators. The time involved was less than a couple of minutes.

What conceivable benefit to the forum is provided by refusing the opportunity for second thoughts?

 

[Cassis]

Today I posted the same message twice by mistake and found that I was unable to delete either of them even though I tried to do so within 30 seconds of the postings!  I was able to edit one of them, though.

[Tresco]

This is all very strange.

Someone else posted before that they had tried to delete their message, but had missed a 5 minute time allowance for doing so, yet i'm fairly sure I deleted one after much longer than that time, after filling in a little box that said 'why do you want to delete this post?'.

There was once a very silly woman who destroyed a thread with a lot of useful information in it by deleting every single one of her posts, but that is the only time I saw the function  'abused'.

I suppose if we can't have 'delete' we will just have to edit out the unwanted message and leave a full stop, which will leave everyone wondering...

[Deimos]

I have found on one occasion that I could not delete a post

but could edit it.  So I edited it then

deleted it without problems.  I suspect

that the delete timer is reset when editing a post (strange behaviour in

itself).  Thus if you want to delete a

post but cannot, try editing it then try deleting it and you might succeed.

Ian

[Ex Forum Admin]

I have checked the settings for editing on the forum software.

You should be able to edit any of your posts as there is currently not a time limit on editing.

There is a difference between editing and deleting. I was under the impression that you couldn't delete a post entirely but could edit it to remove the message...if you would like it deleted email me and I will do it.

Hope this helps.

James

 

[Ron Avery]

No, James

There was a blip the othr night similar to the one after the new software came in.  You could not delete or edit posts even 5 seconds after posting. it seemed to put itself right after a short while though..

[Deimos]

[quote

user="Forum Admin"]

I was under the impression that you couldn't delete a post entirely but

could edit it to remove the message...if you would like it deleted email me and

I will do it.

Hope this helps.

James

 

[/quote]

 

I have certainly totally deleted a post before.  I think there is a very short time limit on

it as I tried a few minutes after making a post and it refused.  So I then edited it to e.g. “Post deleted by

author” and after editing it immediately pressed the delete button and it then

deleted OK.

Ian

 

[Ex Forum Admin]

Oh, OK...I didn't realise as I am using admin rights so I see different buttons. I guess this is the button you see:

I have checked the system and I can't see any control over this for users so it must be a set time limit from posting, hence if you edit you can then delete.

The edit function is currently set with no time limit.

James