Can Members Delete Their Own Posts?

[tssnave]

Pete (T-bird),

In reply to your post Oct 30th in the "Replying to Service Connection" thread where you stated you thought we had 4 buttons on the right, one of which was a delete button:

The 3 buttons that show on the right of my posts are: edit, multi, reply but no delete. I know I used to be able to delete my posts, which was helpful in the past since I could delete posts I'd made during manic episodes that were pretty much gibberish. I wish we still had the ability to delete posts but I don't see that function on my posts any longer. Perhaps only moderators can delete posts.

Do we have to have a certain number of posts to delete our own posts or is this a moderator only function now? I would like to see this feature turned on again for members, even if it is linked to the number of posts you have made like the edit button is.

Please clarify the delete button function for members.

Thanks,

TS Snave

Edited November 7, 2007 by tssnave

[timetowinarace]

I'm not a moderator but..............

If you use the edit function and place the curser on the end you can just hold the backspace untill everything is gone. Might not be the fastest way but it's easier for me to remember.

Time

[Tbird]

you should have the abilit to delete posts i see the delte button at the bottom of the post on the right next to reply

i have changed the delete function to petty officer 3rd class and above.

Pete (T-bird),

In reply to your post Oct 30th in the "Replying to Service Connection" thread where you stated you thought we had 4 buttons on the right, one of which was a delete button:

The 3 buttons that show on the right of my posts are: edit, multi, reply but no delete. I know I used to be able to delete my posts, which was helpful in the past since I could delete posts I'd made during manic episodes that were pretty much gibberish. I wish we still had the ability to delete posts but I don't see that function on my posts any longer. Perhaps only moderators can delete posts.

Do we have to have a certain number of posts to delete our own posts or is this a moderator only function now? I would like to see this feature turned on again for members, even if it is linked to the number of posts you have made like the edit button is.

Please clarify the delete button function for members.

Thanks,

TS Snave

[Pete53]

If you started a Thread I do not think that you can delete it. If you reply to a thread you should see the delete button on your screen. You only will see it on a post that you have made.

[tssnave]

This is a test email to see if I can delete the post. Wait one.

TS

[tssnave]

T-bird, Pete, others - Please help me out here. I am totally lost.

Attached is a screen save of what I am seeing on my screen of my post in this thread and I do not see a delete button. If I am unable to delete this post because I started the thread, please be advised that I have the same three buttons on the bottom of ALL of my posts whether I started the thread or not.

I have tried everything I can think of to find the delete button:

- I looked up Navy rank on the internet to make sure my rank was at least high enough (apparently I am an E-7 on hadit and you need to be an E-4 so I should be good there)

- I logged out and back in just in case there was some setting that needed to be reset

- I looked for the delete key on my posts here and when I couldn't find it I thought that since I started the thread that was the reason I couldn't delete it

- I went and made several test posts in the test post area of the forums to try to get the delete key to come in on either a thread I started or one I replied to

- Thinking perhaps this was a recent change T-bird made and only applicable to new threads started after the change I went to one of Stretch's new threads that I saw Pete on and posted a dummy reply hoping to be able to delete it (sorry, Stretch and Pete) but STILL no delete button.

I have looked at the bottom of my posts but there are still only 3 buttons that show on the right of my posts: edit, multi, reply but no delete. I have looked on the bottom of the first post on threads and don't see a delete button whether I was the first poster in the thread or not.

I am sorry if I am being obtuse but the delete button is escaping me. Please tell me where it is because it is not next to the edit, multi, reply buttons on my replies and not at the bottom of the threads that I see in any post I have made whether I've started the thread or not. I am lost. Please help me. Thanks, TS

[Wings]

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Tbird said, "i have changed the delete function to petty officer 3rd class and above" . . .

You gotta post a few more times to make 3rd class ;-) Rock on!