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Fire

an ordered discussion: the pros and cons of deleting your own replies.

hello help.com. i wanted to examine the possibility of the ability to delete your own replies. i have seen this discussion surface a few times, and wanted to make a post to get to the bottom of it.

first off, if a reply can be edited, i feel that you and mods should be the only ones to edit your replies.

the next obvious problem that comes from this is arguments, and people changing what they said.

i think that every edited reply should say the words: edited, and have an expandable box containing the previous text. this way arguments could be avoided.

any one else have anything to contribute to my examination of this issue?

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (1 minute after post)

good idea, i make typos and i could change them…

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (17 minutes after post)

As long as there is a way for the original information to stay there, I dont mind. Deletion of evidence would pose a problem.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (7 hours, 53 minutes after post)

I personally can’t see the point - we all make typos, and it rarely changes the meaning of what we say - if it does, then you post again rapidly to correct it… - I think posts should be left as they are typed, because then you see how the post has progressed, without worrying about things changing, even if they are marked…

If people REALLY wanted to amend things, maybe a better way would be to create a flag (say, changes your name red - and creates a link to a later post) so continuity is preserved

one of the things i love is being able to read old posts - some of the wisdom in them is superb (its what led me here in the first place)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (15 hours, 54 minutes after post)

hmm, just a few reasons that we should, the pros of this:

sometimes it does change the meaning of what we say(in rare circumstances, where the typo makes someone look bad in some way), and sometimes we dont correct it in time because someone else posts afterwards, though we often do.

sometimes we give out information that we would rather not have said, and if we remove it from obvious view, all the better.

i agree that it would be annoying if people always got rid of their old stuff, having information for future questions saved away was the original reason for the tag system.

i think the link to another post would be too difficult to be used effectively.

- Fire

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An Unknown Location | 10 months, 4 weeks ago (1 month, 3 weeks after post)

interesting. I hadn’t really thought of this. What is the current system

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