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Now, in another thread, I read a post one minute, and drank it in, and when I went back to look for it a few minutes later, after referring to it in the post I was creating, it was gone. Disappeared. Obviously deleted, by someone.
In every other forum using this software that I've used, if a poster changes his mind later, or even accidentally double-posts and goes back to delete one to avoid looking like a klutz, the thread still keeps a reference, like, "Post Deleted by... Joe Blow, 7:49pm," or something. It leaves a "paper trail," a record, even of an "oops" marker in the thread so that people looking for it later would at least be reassured that it had once existed.
When I didn't see the particular post, that was, to say the least, uncomplimentary-to-its-writer, but that there no record of, just showing me that the post had been excised and the numbers had been readjusted, I smelled shenanigans, or a conspiracy (the post I'm referring to had been by Robin Markey, and everyone knows the webmaster).
When the post had disappeared completely, I assumed that it took special access, a webmaster, or at least supermoderator, to excise a post once posted and to cover it so cleanly it never had existed, as is required on other forums. To my shame, I publicly accused Kevin, later, of conspiracy and shenanigans reminiscent of a theme right out of the novel "1984." ("He who controls the past controls the future." --Big Brother). Kevin came back and vehemently denied to me interfering with anyone's exercise of Freedom of Speech on this board.
Well, just today, after over 200 posts here, I was stunned that I'd committed a faux pas and double posted one of my contributions to a thread. For my first time on this forum, I had to go back back into "Edit," and use "Delete Post," and (surprised me!), my post just disappeared, on this version of the software, clean as a whistle!
So I offer my public apology to Kevin. He didn't delete Robin's 9:12 am post of the other day and deny it, a crime to which I'd foolishly jumped to the conclusion and accused him. I am sorry, Kevin, for attacking your integrity over so petty a matter.
It is obvious that any poster, in this version of this forum software, can delete his own post, within, I think, 24 hours, and there's no record left of it.
That's too easy. And not that that's a good thing, but it is how it works. It's too easy. My apologies; I'm sorry, Kevin!
In every other forum using this software that I've used, if a poster changes his mind later, or even accidentally double-posts and goes back to delete one to avoid looking like a klutz, the thread still keeps a reference, like, "Post Deleted by... Joe Blow, 7:49pm," or something. It leaves a "paper trail," a record, even of an "oops" marker in the thread so that people looking for it later would at least be reassured that it had once existed.
When I didn't see the particular post, that was, to say the least, uncomplimentary-to-its-writer, but that there no record of, just showing me that the post had been excised and the numbers had been readjusted, I smelled shenanigans, or a conspiracy (the post I'm referring to had been by Robin Markey, and everyone knows the webmaster).
When the post had disappeared completely, I assumed that it took special access, a webmaster, or at least supermoderator, to excise a post once posted and to cover it so cleanly it never had existed, as is required on other forums. To my shame, I publicly accused Kevin, later, of conspiracy and shenanigans reminiscent of a theme right out of the novel "1984." ("He who controls the past controls the future." --Big Brother). Kevin came back and vehemently denied to me interfering with anyone's exercise of Freedom of Speech on this board.
Well, just today, after over 200 posts here, I was stunned that I'd committed a faux pas and double posted one of my contributions to a thread. For my first time on this forum, I had to go back back into "Edit," and use "Delete Post," and (surprised me!), my post just disappeared, on this version of the software, clean as a whistle!
So I offer my public apology to Kevin. He didn't delete Robin's 9:12 am post of the other day and deny it, a crime to which I'd foolishly jumped to the conclusion and accused him. I am sorry, Kevin, for attacking your integrity over so petty a matter.
It is obvious that any poster, in this version of this forum software, can delete his own post, within, I think, 24 hours, and there's no record left of it.
That's too easy. And not that that's a good thing, but it is how it works. It's too easy. My apologies; I'm sorry, Kevin!
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