Users deleting own posts...

[Shawn711]

Just outta curiousity..........shouldn't users be able to delete posts that they accidentally posted to the wrong forum? I see that you can't delete unless you are a moderator or such, but seems like it would be useful to allow users to delete their own posts......remove a little unnecessary clutter...........just a thought.........

Shawn

[implexant]

you could always email a mod and ask them to delete em. i think giving users the power to delete their own posts would lead to some, uh, naughty things

-Chris

[iNeb]

Like i said in the other post, it stops the abusers..

In both of the forums i run, i allow users to delete their owns posts, but not their owns threads.

[dunbar]

Or just re-edit the post and say something like 'sorry, wrong thread/user/brain fart/old age'....

[Theophylact]

I asked about this once; then I realized that if you could delete a thread that you had started, it would create no end of confusion (especially if others had already posted to it). So though it's a bit of a nuisance to alert a mod that you need to have a post deleted, it's no big deal either.

[davidamarkley]

I think it might be handy to be able to delete an accidental double post.

David

[Shawn711]

Seems like somehow it could be restricted to deleting within a set amount of time, like within 5 mins of post since most mistakes are noticed immediately after posting, to keep deleting postings running rampant and causing too much confusion......... I usually try to do as dunbar suggested and edit the post with notice telling why I deleted info in post/moved the post..........but seems like it'd be easier to just delete the post altogether.....you have to be signed in to edit the post, so I wouldn't think security of abuse would be that much more of a problem......otherwise I would think changing posts would be prevalent IMO.......most people here seem to be able to control themselves within reason

[jorge1]

Theophylact,
I aggree with you

[Strawbs]

Originally posted by davidamarkley
I think it might be handy to be able to delete an accidental double post.

David

I'm a noob here and did just that. The first post didn't show up immediately, so I posted again, as soon as I submitted the second post both of them showed up! I had to edit the second post with an explanation.

Say ...I hope I get paid for posting in here!

[Nighthawk]

It would be nice to be able to delete a double-post, but I don't think deleting a whole thread would be useful unless nobody else had yet replied to it.