how do I delete or edit my posts?

duff_beer_dragon · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:18 am Post subject: how do I delete or edit my posts?

hmmm, again this deletes

admin · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:05 am Post subject:

sorry, regular users are not allowed to edit/delete posts. This is so threads can remain readable in context.

moderators can edit & delete posts with the goals to improve readability, stop offensive content, and discourage unsolicited advertising.

I'm currently looking for more help moderating the forums

duff_beer_dragon · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: re: bollox

delete

frankthetank · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

ALmost every forum I've come across allows editing. Maybe down the road you might allow this?

gnm · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

duff, sorry it really wasn't intended as abuse. but I couldn't resist the simpsons reference in regards to your handle duff_beer....

As regards your post, I think many of us have, in the past at one time or another researched just the type of machines or theorys you put forth. So we could just chock it up to experience. I think if you take a hard scientific look at those technologies you will find that they are in fact just what they seem - too good to be true (and in violation of several aspects of physics)
magnets can't do work...

anyways best wishes...

-G

Aaron · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:

trespam · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:49 am Post subject:

Once a post is committed to the public domain, I don't think it should be edited willy-nilly. People should think about what they are posting and then post it. Changing a post after it has gone public makes it difficult to determine what people are responding to.

Though I caveat this: if one can add and strike out in a visible way, I think that is acceptable. In other words, nothing is removed, a strike out goes through it, and additions are made for clarification. That allows a poster to clarify something to stop further misunderstandings (by placing in the initial post).

In the real world, when I make a comment in a room full of people, I can't edit it. Only comment further with additional comment. Same goes with email. Once I send an email out, I can't modify it. The recipients have received it.

Therefore I personally see no reason to allow editing of posts. My chemistry professor drilled it into our heads that we are never to use pencil in our lab books, only pen. Keep a record of what was written. No erasing and modifying.

As far as lies and abuse, I can't imagine that the poster who is concerned about this is going to get very far in the real world of rough and tumble. Abuse is common in forums like this. Get over it.

Concerned · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Sep 23, 2004 Posts: 1553

I think editing should be allowed. Give it a 30-60 min time frame from when the post is made. It allows an update of spelling, grammar or addition or removal of content.

After a post has been made and present for over 30-60 min then Im quite happy to have it permanent.

I really don't see it as a huge issue if someone posts some junk then within a 30-60 min time frame has a change of heart and decides to edit most of it out.

Generally I spellcheck but I don't always preview

My 2 coppers.
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duff_beer_dragon · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: re:

and this deletes too......'k......

well, alls i have to add is that Mr. Research there looks to me like all he's been researching ever is how to grow a really inappropiate goatee beard

duff_beer_dragon · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:39 am Post subject: promise there'll be no operatics

I won't change how I am or I wouldn't be me, rest assured I am very very serious.

I've lived in the conspiracy my entire life, and before that too.

btw, I am genuinely interested if you know of anything Labyrinth Group related, as yet I've gotten no-one to so much as suggest they know there's a lot of truth to all that -

I'm concerned, as I have been my whole life, about a possible loop forming because of upcoming future choices ; this is what cannot be allowed to happen - again!

chris-h · Heavy Crude Joined: Oct 11, 2004 Posts: 447

bart · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:48 am Post subject:

Here's another idea:

1. Think about what you are going to say before you dash off a post. Let the ideas stew for a while if necessary.

2. Use the Preview feature.

3. If it's absolutely necessary, politely ask an administrator to delete a post you regret.

One reason we have the problem of Peak Oil is that we look to technology to compensate for our own lack of self-discipline.

tmazanec1 · Heavy Crude Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 424

About all I would like to delete is the occasional typo (I'm a good speller but a poor typist).