EDITING OUR FORUM POSTS:
Under some of my posts there is not EDIT button. And yes, I'm sure I've been logged in when I tried to edit my post. What confuses me most is that I can edit some of my posts, but not all. The problem occured in different subforums. Has anybody a clue where the problem might be?
Full Version: I can't edit or delete my own posts
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I have to admit that I too have this problem. For example i have just made a new topic but i see a grammatical error and i want to correct it but it is impossible to do so. It seems that some time ago the EDIT button dissapeared from screen. so I too ask forhelp on how to solve this
ADMIN NOTE:
Replying to this in case some are still wondering. We've set it so that those in the "members" (ie, non-mods) group have 24 hours to edit their own posts.
They can also edit their own topic's titles, ie, you can edit the thread title if you started that topic. I don't think there's a time limit for this latter feature.
Replying to this in case some are still wondering. We've set it so that those in the "members" (ie, non-mods) group have 24 hours to edit their own posts.
They can also edit their own topic's titles, ie, you can edit the thread title if you started that topic. I don't think there's a time limit for this latter feature.
DELETING FORUM POSTS - our own or someone else's
Hi,
since my Mod powers have been enabled I have a problem: When I want to delete one of my own posts (because I see that the question I answered has already been answered or something like that), that post goes to the Trash section like it would if I had deleted someone else's post.
Can somebody explain to me what I can do about this, please?
Hi,
since my Mod powers have been enabled I have a problem: When I want to delete one of my own posts (because I see that the question I answered has already been answered or something like that), that post goes to the Trash section like it would if I had deleted someone else's post.
Can somebody explain to me what I can do about this, please?
Hi, Candra. This happened to me as well. So as far as I can tell, ALL deleted posts are moved to the trash. Disregarding whether a Mod or not (although, I'm pretty sure non-mods can't delete posts) deleted it from the public/private/protected forums.
I think there's no other way around it except deleting it from the trash forum which, quite frankly I won't recommend you to do because at one point or another, we might need that post again.
Hope that helps.
Mods, feel free to correct me or move our posts if they shouldn't be posted here in the public forums
I think there's no other way around it except deleting it from the trash forum which, quite frankly I won't recommend you to do because at one point or another, we might need that post again.
Hope that helps.
Mods, feel free to correct me or move our posts if they shouldn't be posted here in the public forums
Okay, thanks. 
I just thought I did something wrong. 
I just thought I did something wrong.
When someone with moderator privileges hits the Delete button on a forum post, that message gets moved to our hidden Trash forum. This applies whether mods delete their own post or one made by other people. As c&m said, this is to allow us mods to restore that message should we want to anytime later.
(I have other uses for this as well but that's beyond the scope of this topic.)
When someone without mod privs hits the Delete button, that message is gone permanently. That's why I disabled the Delete button for non-mods earlier this year after noticing this. Prior to that, non-mods could delete their own posts. We've never allowed non-mods to delete messages made by other people.
No one, mod or non-mod, can delete the first message in a forum thread. The way for us mods to do that would be to move that first message into the Trash forum using the Split Topic or Move Post command. This also applies to forum threads that have only one post, ie, zero replies, 'cos that lone message would also be the first one on that thread.
(I have other uses for this as well but that's beyond the scope of this topic.)
When someone without mod privs hits the Delete button, that message is gone permanently. That's why I disabled the Delete button for non-mods earlier this year after noticing this. Prior to that, non-mods could delete their own posts. We've never allowed non-mods to delete messages made by other people.
No one, mod or non-mod, can delete the first message in a forum thread. The way for us mods to do that would be to move that first message into the Trash forum using the Split Topic or Move Post command. This also applies to forum threads that have only one post, ie, zero replies, 'cos that lone message would also be the first one on that thread.
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