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[Unknown Hero]

Now, where is delete button, when you need one?

[Tulac]

And a fast reply button in the Game discussion is missing on some places...

[Unknown Hero]

Admins?

[Kosta]

Why would you want to delete your own topic? You have the edit button if you wish to fix anything....

[Braindead]

Tulac, on May 8 2005, 12:36 AM, said:

And a fast reply button in the Game discussion is missing on some places...

fixed

[Pifish]

One reason why a delete button might be needed is in the case of the internet or forums screwing up leading to multiple copies of the same post appearing (It's happened to me on forums before)  So just in case it might be an idea to add one.

[A. J. Raffles]

But in such a case admins usually notice and are quite happy to delete your double post for you. And allowing everybody to delete his own posts may have its disadvantages, actually, because it is a feature which could easily be abused. Much more easily than the 'edit' button, in fact.

[Pifish]

A. J. Raffles, on May 9 2005, 06:48 PM, said:

But in such a case admins usually notice and are quite happy to delete your double post for you. And allowing everybody to delete his own posts may have its disadvantages, actually, because it is a feature which could easily be abused. Much more easily than the 'edit' button, in fact.

If you don't mind me asking, how can it be abused?  Only you or the admins have control over the deleting of posts.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, not if you're a nice person who doesn't mean any harm, but suppose someone's a troll and makes a couple of posts to provoke aggressive posts by other members. Afterwards he deletes his own posts and makes it look as if they were attacking him. I've seen this happen plenty of times on other forums.

[Tom Henrik]

Another abuse usage is posting, deleting, posting, deleting, posting, deleting....

It's called increasing post-count


But A.J. Raffles hit ace on. Trolls can use this in the most damaging way.

[Pifish]

A. J. Raffles, on May 9 2005, 07:11 PM, said:

Well, not if you're a nice person who doesn't mean any harm, but suppose someone's a troll and makes a couple of posts to provoke aggressive posts by other members. Afterwards he deletes his own posts and makes it look as if they were attacking him. I've seen this happen plenty of times on other forums.

I've never seen that happen on a forum before, although it is a good point, posts that happen 4-5 times in succesion as in some kind of argument look very odd if one set of posts is deleted and one is left alone, this does obviously show that something slightly dodgy is happening, also I'm sure that there would be some kind of log that the administrator of the server has access to showing exactly what has happened in the forum.

[Kiddiarni]

Tom Henrik, on May 9 2005, 10:01 AM, said:

Another abuse usage is posting, deleting, posting, deleting, posting, deleting....

It's called increasing post-count


But A.J. Raffles hit ace on. Trolls can use this in the most damaging way.

On Forums where I've been on, the post count decreases after deleting it.

At least on phpBB 2

[Tom Henrik]

Not on Invision Power Board. Here the admins will have to decrease someone's post count manually.

[Kiddiarni]

Tom Henrik, on May 9 2005, 01:12 PM, said:

Not on Invision Power Board. Here the admins will have to decrease someone's post count manually.

That's lame.

[NrmMyth]

Kiddiarni, on May 9 2005, 02:53 PM, said:

Tom Henrik, on May 9 2005, 10:01 AM, said:

Another abuse usage is posting, deleting, posting, deleting, posting, deleting....

It's called increasing post-count


But A.J. Raffles hit ace on. Trolls can use this in the most damaging way.

On Forums where I've been on, the post count decreases after deleting it.

At least on phpBB 2

I also visited those like forums. In a way they were good.

But invision is much nicer.