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I was thinking the other day, wouldn't it be cool to have an option to delete your post for a duration of approximately 5 minutes after you have posted it? Why, you ask? You know when you make a post and decide 30 seconds later, "I shouldn't have posted that..", or, "what a silly post!", etc.

What d'ya think?
 
Sort of like how we can delete reps for a couple minutes after we post them?
I think that would be cool, yeah.
Plus, it could be good with double posting.

But if this doesn't work, you could always write something, and leave it unposted for 5+ minutes. If you still want to post it when the 5 minutes are up, you could.
 
:sl: Can't you just press the edit button and delete your post. :ermm:
 
Testing what Ameena* said...

After testing: Nope, no delete option present. Unless you meant leaving your post empty for a moderator to delete...
 
Ameena* said:
:sl: Can't you just press the edit button and delete your post. :ermm:
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But this is a more efficient idea. I'd personally rather the whole post gone, rather than a one minute later: "edit...............".
 
Ameena* said:
:sl: Can't you just press the edit button and delete your post. :ermm:
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Sadly, we regular folk don't have any mod superpowers- we can't delete our posts.

And that's a good point Guven, wonder how it would be possible to work around that, hmmm...
 
The delete option is available on other forums. This was brought up a long time ago when Kadafi was around but the idea didn't really fly with the admin team at that time.
 
My bad y'all, yeah I agree that it should be added inshaAllaah.

There's no time limit on editing posts is there? :?
 
Güven said:
good Idea , but what if people quote it within that 5 minutes ?
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Maybe that option could only be given to the thread starters? In which case, if the first post is deleted, the whole thread is deleted in effect... You know?
 
It is a very good suggestion. It probably would have been implimented if there were not some drawbacks involved. I know that the vast majority of members would never abuse such a privilage, but periodically we do get members that join for the wrong reasons. Some things that would make us vulnerable to:

1. somebody could post an obscenity or a blsphemous post and delete it before any mod sees it.

2. We have more then a few highly intelligent young members that would soon discover it could be a nice way to carry on idle inter-gender conversations without us ever catching them.


If anybody can show that the advantages would out weigh possible abuse, I would be willing to discuss it with the other admins.
 
grt idea .. thats wat i was thinkin too... i was wondering how come we cant do that .. but yea im with it.. n i hope they do end up doing it.. salamz
 
Like all great ideas, does have it's pros and cons but the mods could implement it and give a testing period of say 10 days and see if it does comply to the rules of the forum as well as have a poll to see if the feature does meet the users requirements as well.
 
Woodrow said:
It is a very good suggestion. It probably would have been implimented if there were not some drawbacks involved. I know that the vast majority of members would never abuse such a privilage, but periodically we do get members that join for the wrong reasons. Some things that would make us vulnerable to:

1. somebody could post an obscenity or a blsphemous post and delete it before any mod sees it.

2. We have more then a few highly intelligent young members that would soon discover it could be a nice way to carry on idle inter-gender conversations without us ever catching them.
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Hmm.. that's true.

If anybody can show that the advantages would out weigh possible abuse, I would be willing to discuss it with the other admins.
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Alright, here we go.

Advantages:

  • Availability to delete silly-sounding posts
  • Gives moderators a break from having to tiresomely delete posts with "[/i]editttt[/i]"
  • Cleans up the forum a bit so no 'empty' posts?
  • Gives a bit more choice and 'free-will' in a way to members
  • It's a nice feature
  • It's a useful feature

Disadvantages:

  • somebody could post an obscenity or a blsphemous post and delete it before any mod sees it.
  • Idle-chat without being realised by mod's



But, with the first disadvantage, the post could be reported, the report and the comment about the post would stay there for the mod's to see and take action against the member.. it would rely on trusting members, though, or a copy of the post could be copied into the 'report a post' section that you mod's have? Or how about you limit this to full members only?

This post has probably sounded a little desperate, lol, but I'm just outweighing reasons, not whining/begging, lol.
 
Woodrow said:
2. We have more then a few highly intelligent young members that would soon discover it could be a nice way to carry on idle inter-gender conversations without us ever catching them.
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But the 'EDIT' feature can be used in a similar way. Besides, if anyone was to use something like a deletion feature to carry out idle inter-gender conversations, it'd be more stupid than intelligent. Other members can read/print screen. (It most certainly is amusing to print screen funny moments)...
Using the 'EDIT' button, one can remain 'on topic' (or rather, under the pretence of remaining on topic) and post a silly comment... Then 'EDIT' the post when necessary, no?
 
Ali. said:
Hmm.. that's true.



Alright, here we go.

Advantages:

  • Availability to delete silly-sounding posts
  • Gives moderators a break from having to tiresomely delete posts with "[/i]editttt[/i]"
  • Cleans up the forum a bit so no 'empty' posts?
  • Gives a bit more choice and 'free-will' in a way to members
  • It's a nice feature
  • It's a useful feature

Disadvantages:

  • somebody could post an obscenity or a blsphemous post and delete it before any mod sees it.
  • Idle-chat without being realised by mod's



But, with the first disadvantage, the post could be reported, the report and the comment about the post would stay there for the mod's to see and take action against the member.. it would rely on trusting members, though, or a copy of the post could be copied into the 'report a post' section that you mod's have? Or how about you limit this to full members only?

This post has probably sounded a little desperate, lol, but I'm just outweighing reasons, not whining/begging, lol.
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Good points. You presented a feasible reason. I will bring it up with the other admins.

I did just think of something tho. I am not to certain if that feature is even available with vBulletin, that also will have to be looked into.
 
Woodrow said:
I did just think of something tho. I am not to certain if that feature is even available with vBulletin, that also will have to be looked into.
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It definitely is. :) They have it at other Vbulletin forums such as UI.
 

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