Wave recently stated that he routinely deletes his posts after a short period of time. Should that be permitted?
Norm, perhaps there should be a time limit on deleting posts - maybe after 3 days, it stays?
What say everyone?
Yes, at any time
yes, but only within ____ days of posting (splease specify)
Not all all
Wave recently stated that he routinely deletes his posts after a short period of time. Should that be permitted?
Norm, perhaps there should be a time limit on deleting posts - maybe after 3 days, it stays?
What say everyone?
On a couple of occasions, I have reached out to someone on this forum with a question about a previous posting. Sometimes they have remembered posting, but they deleted the post because upon further reflection; the information was too sensitive. If they still had access to their posts, they would have shared the information with me.
With that situation in mind, I have another suggestion. Suppose the members that would like to delete their postings would also like to give someone access to their thoughts at a later date. Is it possible for someone to mark their postings as private, so that only the writer could see them?
A member could later share a private posting as they see fit.
21forme probably should have started this in suggestions
So Norm, will you consider making it so posts can't be deleted by the poster? It leaves massive holes in the information flow and is generally distructive. If this were Usenet, for example, it couldn't be deleted. Closer to that model seems like a good idea.
I don't know why but we get posters here who delete their content. It goes against internet norms and the spirit of the conversation on the site.
Deleting lots of posts is indeed disruptive. Being able to delete a very recent post is useful. Whatever you guys decide, as long as it is no deletions at all. That would mean I'd get constant deletion requests.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
Keep in mind that anyone that auto-subscribes to threads receives emails containing posts. Also, up until a couple weeks ago, the non-subscriber forums had RSS feeds with all posts. I had to shut it down as another forum was using it to illegally copy posts to their forum making it look like members here were posting there. Point is, deleting here wouldn't delete these copies.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
I think a week or so is good. I get that it could really disrupt a decent thread at that point, but also for people who don’t visit daily maybe 1-2x per week gives a little bit of extra time for someone to suggest deleting a post that’s too sensitive or for OP to realize or correct that after suggestion, three days maybe a bit tight given no access to pm’s without subscription.
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