Ability to delete your own replies and posts that have no replies

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Ability to delete your own replies and posts that have no replies

Solomon Rutzky

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April 3, 2019 at 2:44 pm

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Is there a practical reason to not having the ability to delete your own content, as long as it doesn't affect anyone else's? This would apply to replies as well as posts that do not have any replies yet. I can't remember if the old forum allowed this or not. If no reason to not allow this other than either "haven't gotten to it" or "didn't think of it", then please add this ability. Thanks.

Take care, Solomon..

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004354 More actions · Answer 1

They only allowed such a thing for certain people and only on certain forums. I believe the reason for that was that some OPs would delete their original and their followup posts if they got in a huff about something, which basically rendered the entire thread of answers useless.

Not saying that's the right way to do it, though.

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Solomon Rutzky SSCoach Points: 16430 More actions · Answer 2

I was thinking it would be handy to be able to clean up one's own potentially obsolete or duplicate posts.

At the very least there should be the ability to soft-delete (i.e. hide) one's own replies and posts that have no replies. Then, if someone does try to alter the flow of a discussion, rending it misleading or meaningless, it can be flagged and an admin/moderator can "undelete" what was hidden.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 3

We didn't allow this in the old forum. Most forum software doesn't allow users to soft delete their own posts, only moderators/admins. Not sure of the effort to change this and check/enable this for individuals users on threads with only their post. We certainly don't want this for all random posts you've included as an answer. You can edit out what you posted, but we still have a record of the post.

It's not enough of a burden to not just have staff do it, so unlikely to allow this.

Solomon Rutzky SSCoach Points: 16430 More actions · Answer 4

Ok, not a problem. It was more of an issue before realizing that WordPress doesn't delete anything anyway, as far as I can tell. Even edits are just new rows leaving the old content versioned. So this request can be ignored / closed. Thanks.

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