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No, I'm NOT talking suicide!!!!

 

I'm puzzled by OP requests in the "For Sale" forum to have the Forum Police delete their own posting after the item has been sold...or otherwise.

 

I thought it was within the ability/responsibility of any poster to be able to edit....even unto deletion...their posting???

 

If this is so, how come they don't simply do this??  (May be a rhetorical question, I know.)

 

More to the point, however, why wouldn't a simple "D.I.Y." response with tutorial be appropriate?  Maybe, analogous to seat-belt and speed 'stings' set up by the local gendarmes from time-to-time...and unannounced...a periodic tutorial 'whack-on-the-side-of-the-head' might be in order?

 

Just trying to a)Help the OGR Forummeisters, b) Reduce forum clutter, c)Educate the unknowing, d)Remind the unawake, e)Whack the obstinate!

 

THIS is what going to THE FORUM gets you when I haven't had my first cup of Joe in the morning!!!  Sorry.

 

FWIW, always....

 

KD

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The reason why an OP asks the moderators to delete a thread is because once there is even one reply the OP no longer has the option to delete a thread that they started. If there are no replies then yes the OP can delete any thread that they started without assistance from anyone. I've done it a few times myself. 

Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:

The "...Forum Police..."? Geez...what an attitude. Do you live in Baltimore?

 

Hudson J1e has explained if clearly. Once a reply is posted to a thread, the OP can no longer delete it himself.

 

Now go get your coffee. You obviously need it.

Whoa, bro'!!!!! 

 

So, what you're suggesting is that (for want of a better java-less word) "police" is, indeed, as our spinning media now panders, a negative connotation???

 

 

Nope, not from ball-more.  "As for me and my house..." we honor our men/women in blue and thank them for their service. 

 

Re deletions....  OK, I now know better.  OTOH, my suggestion....as relates to the For Sale or Want To Buy Forums ONLY ...seems yet reasonable.  Both of these forums, by their very nature, should be afforded OP management start-to-finish. 

 

...even having had my second cup of Joe, it's still "Spockulative"....."It's only logical!"

 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by dkdkrd:
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Re deletions....  OK, I now know better.  OTOH, my suggestion....as relates to the For Sale or Want To Buy Forums ONLY ...seems yet reasonable.  Both of these forums, by their very nature, should be afforded OP management start-to-finish. 

 

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Even if reasonable, the forum software may not have the ability to provide such different allowances for self deletion on only one or 2 forums.

 

That's definitely getting into very specific behavior for software that is probably somewhat generic (though obviously customizable to an extent) for the many different sites it may serve.

 

-Dave

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