Ability to delete posts for a certain time

[Des429]

I think that members should have the option to delete their posts (not threads), for like three minutes or something. this way they can have a chance to delete double posts and stuff.

[smooths*]

sounds like a good idea, i'd use that :) helpful for clumbsy people to that post in the wrong board :p ..

cough..me me..

[Rushnak]

I think It's a good idea, I mean. Why not? Mods can already see deleted threads/posts, what's the difference if you can delete your own post? Maybe a poll would've been a good idea.

[shockz]

Nope.

It's not that hard for us to delete a post. Contact us if we don't see it right away.

[y0sh]

lol why don't they trust us to delete our own posts?

[smooths*]

bring on the poll ! lol should be the same idea as with editing you're post, have a time limit just like this could have :yes:

[McGazza]

bring on the poll ! lol should be the same idea as with editing you're post, have a time limit just like this could have  :yes:

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Set one up then!!

[Chad.C]

lol why don't they trust us to delete our own posts?

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Because people would abuse the Privilege. No doubt people would be posting stupid comments, flamming eachother, curses, anything against the rules then deleting their posts.

Simply edit your post with <double post> or whatever.

I just see too many problems with this.

[Senseotech]

Because people would abuse the Privilege. No doubt people would be posting stupid comments, flamming eachother, curses, anything against the rules then deleting their posts.

Simply edit your post with <double post> or whatever.

I just see too many problems with this.

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And people can't do this with being able to edit their posts? Its the exact same thing, just allows the user to delete double posts, there is no downside that editing doesn't already have.

[Hypoxiaicon]

Nope.

It's not that hard for us to delete a post. Contact us if we don't see it right away.

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I totally agree.

Members have no need to delete posts.

[Chode]

Nope.

It's not that hard for us to delete a post. Contact us if we don't see it right away.

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But the big mean mods yell at me :cry:

[McGazza]

Because people would abuse the Privilege. No doubt people would be posting stupid comments, flamming eachother, curses, anything against the rules then deleting their posts.

Simply edit your post with <double post> or whatever.

I just see too many problems with this.

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I agree. Also Hypoxiaicons point is right. Just get a mod to do it, doesnt take lon:):)

[shockz]

How do you guys double post anyways???

Doesn't the button grey out after you click it?

[j.r.l.]

How do you guys double post anyways???

Doesn't the button grey out after you click it?

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Click, server busy, back, click.

[planetik]

Not in firefox... I think.

This sounds like a good idea, although the only people who double post are people who are too lazy to wait for the server to load...

[shockz]

Click, server busy, back, click.

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Well usually if the server is busy when your post is going through... it will save your post in a box for you to copy and repaste. If you don't get that box that says "post data saved", then its probably posted.

[Chode]

in times when Neowin is having "difficulties" it happens easily.

[Joel]

Click, server busy, back, click.

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That's when you learn to Click, Server Busy, Back, Refresh to make sure.

[mistical]

Because people would abuse the Privilege. No doubt people would be posting stupid comments, flamming eachother, curses, anything against the rules then deleting their posts.

Simply edit your post with <double post> or whatever.

I just see too many problems with this.

I don't ever double post and I know this ability would probably never be added anyways, which is fine for me. Does not matter either way.

But I don't see how you think people would abuse the privilegeNeonemesis did say in his topic title and post that it should only be for like 3 minutes. I think there would be no problem or abuse if it were to be say, 1 minute.i> 1 minute would be fine and perfect, if ever considered which Neowin coders have other things to do first anyways.

Lets say it was a minute. Someone who would flame, post a stupid comment, curse, or whatever, and then delete their post within the minute, needs a lot of help in my opinion. Who would actually read that post within the minute, not many, if any at all.

@shockz, not always does that page appear where you can save what you wrote. I know this and have been really ****ed off afterwards if I wrote something long and did not think to save it because I did not think I'd have a problem posting. Not always is it posted either, yes, sometimes, it has been:):)

Oh well though, the ability to do so is not a big deal for me. If Neowin adds it, they do, and it will be useful if it were ever needed. If not, it's still fine, you can just PM a moderator for that forum/global moderator as shockz said.

[....]

It will never happen as it is an easy way to abuse the system. This is pretty concrete. Sorry.

[Chode]

I'm not whinging, nor questioning staff decisions....

I'm just curious as to how a member could abuse the system with it? Have I lost my anti-authoritan edge? :(

[emo]

i think editing is enough. they should just make the time for editing so theres no time limit. besides that, deleting is what mods are here for.

[smooths*]

i'm not sure if guys are getting this, we wan't to have the option to delete our own post, not anyone elses just like we do with "edit" post, as we can only edit ours no one elses. So i don't see how this can be classed as abuse since it would only be our own posts that we are deleteing.

I still think it would be cool none the less.

[The Jorge]

It'd be nice to be able to do that sometimes, but I don't think its necessary. Just get a mod to do it. (Y)

[ozgeek]

Not in firefox... I think.

This sounds like a good idea, although the only people who double post are people who are too lazy to wait for the server to load...

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Actually, that's not really true. Some people experience unreliable connections to Neowin, especially me, but all other sites appear fine. It is because the neowin server is so busy, they have to handle thousands of connections at once. They struggle to keep providing content to thousands of computers and thus that would bring it down, forcing some of us to wait a bit longer or face the "Server is busy" messages. The pages does load, but we instead get "Sorry, the server is too busy...blah...blah.." message.

This would be a good feature for those with unreliable connections (especially dialup connections), but as mods already said, they will handle it for you.