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Subject: Where in aldfkjasdklfj is the back button???

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Not trying to copy Facebook, (actually i am.) but wouldn't it be convenient if Bnet had a "Delete post/Delete comment" button for the forums? Like if you say something extremely stupid (people do it all the time on here.) you can just delete it??

[Edited on 10.18.2011 12:22 PM PDT]

  • 10.18.2011 12:22 PM PDT

It wouldn't matter, people would have quoted you by then.

  • 10.18.2011 12:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: GAMERGOD7777777
It wouldn't matter, people would have quoted you by then.

And if not, then you could just edit your post, like on Google +.

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  • 10.18.2011 12:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Either edit your post and fix the error, or edit your post and say something else.

There is no deleting here.

  • 10.18.2011 12:27 PM PDT

Ehh, having the power to delete ones post wouldn't do good for the mods. As they use your post as evidence against you when you get banned. So if you could delete your posts mods wouldn't have much to go off of.

The idea and what you want it to do is sound but how it'll be used by the community probably wouldn't fly.

  • 10.18.2011 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: THORSGOD
Ehh, having the power to delete ones post wouldn't do good for the mods. As they use your post as evidence against you when you get banned. So if you could delete your posts mods wouldn't have much to go off of.

The idea and what you want it to do is sound but how it'll be used by the community probably wouldn't fly.
that's not the reason at all. The mods would simply just be able to reveal your posts when they press the reveal button if a system like this was ever implemented.

The reason is because it'll cause confusion and generally make people angry.

  • 10.18.2011 12:32 PM PDT


Posted by: komark

Posted by: THORSGOD
Ehh, having the power to delete ones post wouldn't do good for the mods. As they use your post as evidence against you when you get banned. So if you could delete your posts mods wouldn't have much to go off of.

The idea and what you want it to do is sound but how it'll be used by the community probably wouldn't fly.
that's not the reason at all. The mods would simply just be able to reveal your posts when they press the reveal button if a system like this was ever implemented.

The reason is because it'll cause confusion and generally make people angry.

Then what do you do if what OP means is literally deleting the post from ever having existed?

  • 10.18.2011 12:34 PM PDT
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you don't implement it.
Ideas get posted in this forum all the time, not all are great.

  • 10.18.2011 12:35 PM PDT

Posted by: komark
The reason is because it'll cause confusion and generally make people angry.
That's the only real reason I can see for there not being a delete post button.

If the flow of the discussion is interrupted by someone going through and deleting all of their posts, it would be quite confusing (of course, that's what happens when a user gets banned; which can also make threads confusing).

  • 10.18.2011 12:37 PM PDT
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Or, you could edit your post to say "nevermind" or something like that. While it doesn't get rid of the post, it gets rid of the potential stupidity.

Due to the nature of trolls, I'd imagine that a delete button would probably just end up confusing us because trolls would post something offensive, then delete it later. When people realized they feed the trolls, they'd delete their posts and all of us would be confused.

I'd rather we just stuck with editing your post. If that's not a broad enough eraser, perhaps thinking about simply not creating topics would be a more worthwhile endeavor to curb the proverbial member's stupidity.

  • 10.18.2011 12:44 PM PDT

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I don't think they have that due to the fear that someone would post shock sites everywhere and just delete them when a ninja is on.

  • 10.18.2011 12:48 PM PDT
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  • 10.18.2011 12:51 PM PDT

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  • 10.18.2011 12:52 PM PDT
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Be mindful that others are viewing, and you cannot delete their posts. Thus, if you were to delete your own posts, gaps would be left in the threads and create confusion, much like it does when a user is banned and their posts are hidden.

Another reason, to a lesser degree, could be that the web-team wishes you to learn from your mistakes, rather than forsake or disown them. They will always be apart of you. Yes, you can edit them, however I for one hesitate when editing posts, as I know people will wonder how significant the changes were.

These, of course, are speculations. However they are what I believe and felt them worthy as suggestive answers to your inquiry.

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I would use this to bump my thread to the top, and then remove the evidence. My threads would be so popular! :)

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Posted by: Mr AwesomePizza
Posted by: BREQ
The ninja's are always on.
Not at one in the morning.
It wouldn't matter though. The Web Team will probably not adopt the suggested feature, but IF they did, it would certainly only make "deleted" posts invisible from us members. The Ninjas will almost certainly have a Reveal button that shows deleted posts. The Web Team isn't stupid enough to allow otherwise.

  • 10.18.2011 1:04 PM PDT

What a hipster.

"Thus the new breed of super trolls are born"; a possible headline I can image if this idea ever went through.

Do you know how difficult this would make the moderators job? Lets just say someone strikes the forums with a link to a shock site. The poster could simply delete the post / thread before it gets noticed by the mods. In the time period that post / thread was up, countless amounts of users could have been affected; and with the lack of evidence on the moderators behalf, there's not much they could really do.

Another thing, with Facebook you have the option to choose the people you want to be friends with (the people you want to see), on Bnet you get no such choice. Having this "friend network" pretty much stops the problem all together; in a way, you can pretty much moderate yourself (friend removal). Yet on a site like Bnet, having this "you can only see accepted users posts" idea wouldn't work well, especially in establishing a community. In that sense OP, not a good comparison.

Also, on facebook you can actually see someones identity. IRL most people actually care about their reputation.

[Edited on 10.18.2011 1:35 PM PDT]

  • 10.18.2011 1:13 PM PDT

Bip Bap Bam in the brainpan!

how would you know?

crap, forgot to quote it...


[Edited on 10.18.2011 2:32 PM PDT]

  • 10.18.2011 2:32 PM PDT

Bip Bap Bam in the brainpan!


Posted by: Mr AwesomePizza
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The ninja's are always on.
Not at one in the morning.


how would you know?

There, that's better.

[Edited on 10.18.2011 2:33 PM PDT]

  • 10.18.2011 2:32 PM PDT

Bip Bap Bam in the brainpan!


Posted by: Commander GX
"Thus the new breed of super trolls are born"; a possible headline I can image if this idea ever went through.

Do you know how difficult this would make the moderators job? Lets just say someone strikes the forums with a link to a shock site. The poster could simply delete the post / thread before it gets noticed by the mods. In the time period that post / thread was up, countless amounts of users could have been affected; and with the lack of evidence on the moderators behalf, there's not much they could really do.

Another thing, with Facebook you have the option to choose the people you want to be friends with (the people you want to see), on Bnet you get no such choice. Having this "friend network" pretty much stops the problem all together; in a way, you can pretty much moderate yourself (friend removal). Yet on a site like Bnet, having this "you can only see accepted users posts" idea wouldn't work well, especially in establishing a community. In that sense OP, not a good comparison.

Also, on facebook you can actually see someones identity. IRL most people actually care about their reputation.


Good point. Idk guys, it was just a question. And obviously we (or I) have our(or my) answer.

[Edited on 10.18.2011 2:34 PM PDT]

  • 10.18.2011 2:34 PM PDT