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Censorship is bad.  You can't just have everyone liking your stuff.

Having run a few boards on various topics, pains in the arse tend to disappear due to the weight of the will of the people.  I also seem to recall that you weren't exactly pleasant to me once in the past.  Swings and roundabouts I guess.

You`re right Migs. you`re always right!  :-X

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I'm going to laugh for the rest of the day now.

Deleting somebodies posts is a bit unethical, maybe another solution would be better?

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I have no clue what you`re talking about?

What's that, I'm ignoring you?

Quote from: Gnasty on August 09, 2011, 11:52:07 AMWouldn`t a great solution to this be for the person who created the song or discussion post have control and  be able to delete whatever post he or she doesn`t like? It also cuts  down on Administration having to get involved.

In principle, this almost makes sense.  For example, when you have a blog, you have the right to approve/delete what others submit.

So you're proposing that each member control their threads as though it's their own blog.

Although I see the outcome would be that people would be too quick to delete posts rather than articulate their own world view, and others would be hesitant to express themselves knowing that their comments could simply be deleted if deemed controversial by the people who are incapable or unwilling to articulate their opposing thoughts.  In short, it would lead to less communication and a homogenization of content.  Is that in the spirit of this community?  It's not for me to say.

Honestly, I think there would be so few posts deleted if members were actually able to delete them, and that's based solely on my own experience.

As a long standing and absurdly active member here, I have the luxury of speaking my mind, right or wrong (often wrong). I know in advance that I'm going to piss a few people off at times. I accept that.

As a forum administrator on another forum, my posting habits and personality change, I am quite a bit more open minded, and look for conflict resolution via other means. I have deleted maybe 5 posts total, though I was tempted to delete way more often. The whole power/responsibility/community factor kicks in. Ultimately, I realized "who the hell am I to be the moral conscience?" I'm the last guy for that job. 

I'm not keen on this idea either, I think admin have things well covered if topics get out of hand. Forums are for discussions and some times disagreement, that's just how it should be!

Is this forum really that hostile that such a extreme measure would need to be taken?

Sometimes humor is missed in text form

Quote from: Gnasty on August 09, 2011, 11:52:07 AMThis is actually a Just for Laughs thread. I put it in the wrong category ;D :D

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Gnasty was being a clown.

Quote from: Tony W on August 10, 2011, 07:24:30 AMSometimes humor is missed in text form

Quote from: Gnasty on August 09, 2011, 11:52:07 AMThis is actually a Just for Laughs thread. I put it in the wrong category ;D :D

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Gnasty was being a clown.

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I put white out on my screen every time I see your name.

Quote from: Tony W on August 10, 2011, 08:55:51 AMI put white out on my screen every time I see your name.

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doh

Quote from: Gnasty on August 08, 2011, 03:54:03 PMWouldn`t a great solution to this be for the person who created the song or discussion post have control and  be able to delete whatever post he or she doesn`t like? It also cuts  down on Administration having to get involved.

First, when you say "the person who created the song or discussion post" I assume that you mean the person who created the topic. A post is an individual message within a topic. It can be the first message of the topic or it can be a reply. They're all posts.

Every member already has the ability to delete their own posts, except for the first post of a topic. However, no member has the ability to delete another member's posts, and that's as it should be. I'm sure that none of us wants to spend time replying to posts only to have someone come along and delete them. No member except an administrator can remove a topic since doing so deletes all of the posts in that topic. Obviously, giving the original poster of a topic the ability to remove the topic would mean that he could delete the posts of other members and that would be wrong.

If a member posts a new topic, then changes his/her mind and wants it removed, they can ask an admin to remove it. If no one has replied to the topic, we will gladly remove it. However, if there are replies, then the original poster no longer "owns" the topic as other members have a stake in it too. We can't remove the topic unless all of the posters in the topic agree, or there's a very good reason to remove it. For example. if the topic was generally offensive, we might remove it. However, it's more likely that we'd just remove or edit the offensive posts rather than remove the whole topic.

See what you did Gnasty? I can't because I'm ignoring you.

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I can't even read what I just wrote. It works!
 

                             

Quote from: Gnasty on August 09, 2011, 09:53:43 AMYou`re right Migs. you`re always right!  :-X

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