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Clearly censored!
I do however think in some cases it is required. I have being using forums for many years from around 1992 at that time using packet radio and from time to time you do get information or comments which the sysop or administrator needs to delete. It could be offensive or dangerous and with packet radio all those years ago it was a legal requirement for the sysop to delete any messages which would not comply with the licence requirements.
Today it's harder for the administrator to keep track but general principles are the same. There is a DIY forum where the administrator views all posts before letting them be seen. This causes a few problems, one major one is your can't view or change your post until it is authorised and it takes a long time to get replies. I also feel it places much more responsibility on the administrator as they are by the way they operate endorsing the replies.
We see on this forum how views differ and I think it's good to see the different views. It also means in effect everyone has the option of correcting errors quickly. We see comments like "Don't you mean xyz" when a typographic error has been made.
We also see dangerous although possibly valid ways to repair. There is a cooker problem which electricians are aware of which can often be cured using a dangerous practice which I am sure is often done. However we should never explain this on a forum as it could so easily cause a death.
I would hope if anyone did explain on the forum then the administrators would delete the post.
I do however think in some cases it is required. I have being using forums for many years from around 1992 at that time using packet radio and from time to time you do get information or comments which the sysop or administrator needs to delete. It could be offensive or dangerous and with packet radio all those years ago it was a legal requirement for the sysop to delete any messages which would not comply with the licence requirements.
Today it's harder for the administrator to keep track but general principles are the same. There is a DIY forum where the administrator views all posts before letting them be seen. This causes a few problems, one major one is your can't view or change your post until it is authorised and it takes a long time to get replies. I also feel it places much more responsibility on the administrator as they are by the way they operate endorsing the replies.
We see on this forum how views differ and I think it's good to see the different views. It also means in effect everyone has the option of correcting errors quickly. We see comments like "Don't you mean xyz" when a typographic error has been made.
We also see dangerous although possibly valid ways to repair. There is a cooker problem which electricians are aware of which can often be cured using a dangerous practice which I am sure is often done. However we should never explain this on a forum as it could so easily cause a death.
I would hope if anyone did explain on the forum then the administrators would delete the post.
Which topic has been edited?
It would be helpful if when the moderators delete a post they would privately inform the person who had posted it the reason why it had to be deleted.
I think they may be doing that now. I recently got an 'alert' telling me why some of my posts had been deleted - which, on that occasion, was not really anything to do with my posts, per se, but was because they were responses to other posts that they wished to remove.
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I do see where some one answers a post which is then deleted or modified this can cause problems so it may be better to also delete the answers. Also locking can also cause problems. But either they should remove the thread or add deleted by moderator X and I am sure that is what is done. Which makes me feel this is not the thread which has been affected but a thread about having posts deleted.
I am dyslexic and I have been known to make errors, Be it writing "one should never not isolate" which although to me says one should isolate but could be read by others without thought to the double negative as being the reverse, or using a word like decimate which I see as a precise figure of getting rid of 1 in 10 but others may consider as getting rid of nearly everything it is all too easy to make errors.
Words change meanings and it is easy for us older people to not realise what others may read into what we say. I try for example to say Low voltage (230) and Extra low voltage (12) to stop any one thinking low voltage means 12 volt, however we don't always remember.
I am sure the Jolly Miller who lived on the side of the Dee although blithe what not what many consider the next word in the song to mean. Another double negative (No not I).
I am dyslexic and I have been known to make errors, Be it writing "one should never not isolate" which although to me says one should isolate but could be read by others without thought to the double negative as being the reverse, or using a word like decimate which I see as a precise figure of getting rid of 1 in 10 but others may consider as getting rid of nearly everything it is all too easy to make errors.
Words change meanings and it is easy for us older people to not realise what others may read into what we say. I try for example to say Low voltage (230) and Extra low voltage (12) to stop any one thinking low voltage means 12 volt, however we don't always remember.
I am sure the Jolly Miller who lived on the side of the Dee although blithe what not what many consider the next word in the song to mean. Another double negative (No not I).
Indeed - particularly, of course, if the answers quote bits of the post that has been deleted. I have no problem with that.
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I have not really tried can you delete a thread one has started before there are any answers or once started is that it?
I think you would have a problem if you did try since, to the best of my knowledge, there is no 'delete' button you could press! As has always been the case, I think the closest one can get it still to edit out all the content - but one can then, if one wants, 'report' the message and ask the mods to remove it.
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i think you will find it was meant for the GD forum and not electrical related
'Twas initially a mistake, as you say.
I left it with no comment to see if it would be removed.
I left it with no comment to see if it would be removed.
IIRC you used to be able to get a post removed by editing it to only contain 
Whether that ever actually worked, and if so whether it still does, I don't know.
Whether that ever actually worked, and if so whether it still does, I don't know.
I edited it to the full stops but couldn't find any way to delete the title or whole thread.
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