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Deleting or editing a post that has been responded to

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
January 24, 2012
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How do I delete or edit a post that has already been responded to?

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

I am with Claudio here.

Let us see it this way: the forums form a kind of open conversation, only in written form. Just like a speaker, the poster may freely replace or edit a statement until answered, but as soon as someone has replied, the speaker/poster will have to take the added statement(s) into account.

In the days of the fair forums there was a 30 minute unconditional editing time. Sometimes it was used to create jokes about the subsequent answers, but mostly it just caused confusion and sometimes dissatisfaction when used after replies to the post in question.

It is also more sensible that the one at fault, if that is the case, takes the blame instead of passing it on to someone innocent. For my own part, I freely admit my being silly on a regular basis, although this applies to statements that I have no wish to withdraw.

Edit: In addition, I believe everyone is used to see many errors in posts and care little about them.

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

Not when I first started, and to some extenent even now. And spell check doesn't work here except if you click on HTML button. and the built in spellchecker, in the system is not better than not having any.

And I not say to allow removal of Original Post. Only any replies. I agree if you need to add conditions they should be added in another post.

Anyway I find the system on Answers much better than here. You can run the computer's spell checker unlike here and If you post a brain dead answer and you find it so you can delete it.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Catherine,

I have just sent a PM (Private Message) to John (Cornicello) in the hope that he will see all this and remove the unwanted parts of post #4 very soon.

adobe-admin

Legend

Admin is faster than John (I don't sign in with that account every day). But any other host who read this should have been able to remove the personal information.

Sorry about the delay.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Thank you very much, John. I will remember the faster one.

Claudio González

Legend

You can't. You can try sending a PM to a moderator asking for your message to be deleted, which s/he may or may not do.

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catatonic76Author

Participant

Thanks. I've tried that, but no reponse. I was hoping there would be a quicker method.

adobe-admin

Legend

Sorry, I was out of office. If you posted a link to the thread here, any of a number of moderators would have jumped on it to cleam up the thread. I think I found the right one and cleaned it up.

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