How to Delete One's Own Post

[Lafont]

BTW, it says in the instructions here one's own post can be deleted but I don't find any means of doing it, under "Edit." And, if it makes any difference, I tried to do it before anyone responded to that particular post. [and, for what it's worth, I never edited out any phrase that should have implied I thought an "optimo" hat mean high quality....]

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by Lafont

. . . [and, for what it's worth, I never edited out any phrase that should have implied I thought an "optimo" hat mean high quality....]
I don't believe you. AlanC is a minister and also a moderator on AAAT and he wouldn't lie.

 

[onion]

Normally it's under the edit option in VBulletin, but it appears that Style Forum has this option turned off. So basically, you can't delete your own post.

 

[Lafont]

a little misinterpretation, perhaps....

 

[Lafont]

oh well....

 

[datasupa]

I would like to express my full support of enabling Lafont to delete his posts.

 

[Lafont]

Ditto. Tit for tat, as they say.

 

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Lafont

Ditto. Tit for tat, as they say.

What's a tat? I gotta get some of those.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Brad

What's a tat? I gotta get some of those.
According to Tweety Bird, it's a ***** tat.

 

[Brad]

Originally Posted by RJman

...it's a ***** tat.

Ah, so it really is a zero-sum game. Back to the drawing board.

 

[datasupa]

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
-George Carlin (RIP)

 

[Concordia]

Originally Posted by RJman

According to Tweety Bird, it's a ***** tat.


But are those really present 1:1?

 

[Lafont]

Take it up with me who am he.
Did you was?
Response: Might I'll be!

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

An alternative to deleting one's own post is rendering one's own post meaningless, or as close to meaningless as one can make a string of symbols (letters, numbers, punctuation). For example, let's say I posted something, it matters not what, or why, it is not important, the point is that I posted and I regret it. Acting on that regret, I can edit the post so that what was once something full of meaning (perhaps I revealed too much, perhaps what I wrote could be construed as a threat, or maybe it seemed superfluous or irrelevant), becomes inscrutable, maybe an apparently meaningless string of letters, or if you prefer, you could be more transparent, and write something like "post deleted", though we know it isn't true, because here, posts aren't deleted, and if they were, you would not be reading about it, or even know it.

 

[Lafont]

Would you expand that, please?