deleting your own posts

[Malfini]

I think it would be nice to be able to delete your OWN posts. I on two occasions accidently made a post following my previous post. I ended up putting a message in the post saying something like "(sorry I didn't mean to make this please delete it)". The moderators were very prompt in deleting it for me but I still think it would be nice to be able to delete your own messages if you need to. Furthermore since it's against the rules to have two contiguous posts why not disallow those from being created in the forum code? Just a thought.

[Einnol]

Or, for the double posting problem, install this mod:

Merge Double Posts By Same Member

[Karyuu]

There would be way too much abuse, and it has already approached this when regular members accidentally had deleting priviledges. Someone writes an offensive post, lets a few people read it, then deletes. Someone gets riled up and curses across a forum, and deletes all evidence before anyone can do anything. People will delete posts from a conversation and a thread will look disjointed and make no sense.

Einnol, acraig tried installing that mod but he had some problems. Perhaps he'll try again some time later.

If you make a double post for now, report it and a mod will take care of it for you without any problems.

[Nilrem]

Accidental double posts are normally dealt with without much problems, I don't see the need of having that mod installed.

Mainly, because I think it would bring also one disadvantage. The place where one is more likely to see "double-posting" is in Storywriting, where people writes their stories, commonly in form of chapters, so each post is a chapter. That ain't fitting to the definition of "harmful double-posting" but the script to merge all "double-posts" made by same user into one would not notice the difference, unless it has an option for it to act only in certain forum areas, or a slight code modification has to be applied to it to not convert, let's say, a story made by several post of the same user, occupying 1 page and a half, into one single post that, would not only turn out being a "page" longer than what someone might assume as logical, but also be impossible to read as it would be an impressive text column.

Double posting is, then, being dealt correctly as it is now, and since I personally see that flaw to an "automatic" double-posting avoidance, I'd prefer things to stay the way they are.

[DaveG]

There are plenty of cases where double posting is fine.  Most of the time you should edit, but if for instance the second post is a while after the first (at least a few days, maybe weeks) then it's better to add another post than to edit.  It's just that most double posting is posting one thing (or set of things) over multiple posts in a short period of time.