How do you delete / edit a post these days?

[pugdomains]

On the old forum if you posted a list of domains that were available you could go back and remove the domains from the list. This was clearly in the interests of any buyer who doesn't want the domain on a forum, especially if reselling.

But the ability to do that seems to have been revoked?

I have old lists of domains that I'd like to edit out.

 

[Admin]

You can edit a post for up to 30 days, normal forum good practice I believe.

 

[RobM]

I still haven't figured out how to edit a post here yet.

 

[RobM]

Here is a screenshot of what I see - am I missing something?
http://www.domainview.co.uk/sshot.jpg

 

[Admin]

Here is a screenshot of what I see - am I missing something?
http://www.domainview.co.uk/sshot.jpg

No, you are missing nothing, something is not setup correctly, I just checked this too. @Adam H - please can you take a look.

Current setup should give normal users 30 days, paid up members get longer.

 

[Admin]

You should have one of these, will get it sorted.

 

[Adam H]

No, you are missing nothing, something is not setup correctly, I just checked this too. @Adam H - please can you take a look.

Current setup should give normal users 30 days, paid up members get longer.

Normal members are set to 30 hours editing limit, exclusive members are set to 30 days. Thats how it should have been working anyway, the settings were all done but another group was overriding it, should work now. I wouldn't recommend editing the edit limits further than that.

 

[RobM]

Thanks I have a button now
*edit* There you go.

 

[Admin]

Normal members are set to 30 hours editing limit, exclusive members are set to 30 days. Thats how it should have been working anyway, the settings were all done but another group was overriding it, should work now. I wouldn't recommend editing the edit limits further than that.

Cheers Super Tech Admin!

 

[newguy]

Normal members are set to 30 hours editing limit, exclusive members are set to 30 days. Thats how it should have been working anyway, the settings were all done but another group was overriding it, should work now. I wouldn't recommend editing the edit limits further than that.

An indefinite amount of time to edit old posts might be a decent exclusive member selling point. I can think of a few valid reasons why someone might want to edit a post beyond the 30 day period.

 

[Admin]

Sounds fair.....sign up then

 

[Adam H]

An indefinite amount of time to edit old posts might be a decent exclusive member selling point. I can think of a few valid reasons why someone might want to edit a post beyond the 30 day period.

Giving indefinite editing abilities is not something I'd personally recommend on any forum, having seen sensible, mature and well-respected members go either slightly mental or have too much to drink in the past, going on an editing spree and a couple of thousand posts later you have a potentially valuable content totally removed.

You only have to have an upset member for someone to remove all their posts over a weeks totally undetected, I can't imagine admin going through the edit logs on a regular basis viewing all the content that's been removed. Yes, it's retrievable but why create hours/days of work for yourself on a grand scale when realistically any edits over a month should be a moderation decision ( IMO ) anyway.

After all the exclusive membership gives the right to ask extraordinary requests of admin anyway, for the very few requests of older thread edits being asked It makes more sense for simple requests rather than exposing risk, even if the risk is very small.

It may be a little different here as most of the posts are sales threads so maybe the solution here is allowing certain sections for exclusive members to have longer editing life rather than global. That way sales threads or domain mentions can be removed, but the content in the content sections of the forum remain. Still not something I'd recommend....but If admin wants it...its up to him