Help finding a post

[Michael B. Ross]

I mistakenly posted this in the Theology Discussion forum, but I couldn't find a way to delete it even though no one had posted a reply. If a moderator wants to delete the other one, that would be great.

I am trying to find a post, but I cannot find it either by using the search tool or by browsing the post lists.

About 1-2 weeks ago, someone's post mentioned a song that focuses on what we should leave for the next generations. I wanted to look into it more.

Can someone help me find the post?

[Hans Deventer]

I mistakenly posted this in the Theology Discussion forum, but I couldn't find a way to delete it even though no one had posted a reply. If a moderator wants to delete the other one, that would be great.

It's done. You can delete posts by going to the "edit" option and then select "delete"

[Michael B. Ross]

Thanks, Hans. I appreciate it.

The delete option was not available for me on that post. I even looked in the advanced option tab.

It's done. You can delete posts by going to the "edit" option and then select "delete"

[Hans Deventer]

The delete option was not available for me on that post. I even looked in the advanced option tab.

Strange. I'll check with Scott about the reason for this forum behaviour.

[Michael B. Ross]

I remember some discussion several months ago about deleting the first post in a new thread. My memory is vague about it, but I think it was set that a new-thread post could be deleted as long as no one had posted the second post in the thread. So, maybe with the upgrades it diverted back to a new-thread post cannot be deleted even if no one has added another post.

The delete option is available on my response to your earlier post.

Strange. I'll check with Scott about the reason for this forum behaviour.

[Barb Bouldrey]

Michael,

I mentioned recently a song by Legacy Five entitled, "Monument" that asks, "Where are the monuments we should be leaving to show our children the way to get home."

Is that the one? If so, I can get the words and email them to you.

Barb

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

It's kind of a toss up issue. If users are allowed to delete threads, then they can possibly delete what others have posted in reply.

Our users like being able to go back and edit posts, so I sat that up to give them one day in which they can go back and edit.

If I were to let them delete their threads too, that would automatically set the delete time for one day too.

In other words we can have it like this:
Edit your post or delete your thread, including responses: 5 minutes
-or-
Edit your post or delete your thread, including responses: 1 day
-or
Edit your post: 1 day - but never able to delete a thread (what we use now)

But we can't have:
Edit your post: 1 day
-AND-
Delete your thread: 5 minutes

The software simply doesn't work that way.

[Marsha Lynn]

Our users like being able to go back and edit posts, so I sat that up to give them one day in which they can go back and edit.

And as an obsessive-compulsive editor, I appreciate that. The old software allowed editing indefinitely, but reset the post to "unread" after editing. That could be annoying for those who had already read the post and didn't care that an extraneous comma had been mercifully terminated or a misspeled word rectified or a tangled and lengthy sentence that took the reader thru multiple layers of clauses and subclauses with nary a pause to come up for air made more manageable. After several people had read my posts, I just shuddered and left the errors that appeared like latent weed seeds rather than do the reset by editing. Now I can freely tweak my words for 24 hours as long as I am considerate of those who have already responded to the original version. Thanks, Scott!

I don't notice the inability to delete threads because I don't often start a new one, having a stronger urge to respond to current topics of discussion than to raise new ones. When I do, I try to be extra careful with the title and forum before launching it into the deep to see how it sails, but then that is not too difficult since starting a new thread is such a novelty for me.

Marsha

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

And as an obsessive-compulsive editor, I appreciate that.

You know what drives me crazy? I can type in a post and re-read it a time or two be to sure it is okay and then, 3 seconds after I post it, glance at it and immediately see some glaring error. I don't know what it is about looking at it on the screen after I submit it that does that, but it happens to me all the time.

[Barb Bouldrey]

Me, too, Scott, me too.

It drives me nuts. I can print out my report to the NMI convention and read it over and over and over to practice it, and on the day of convention find a typing error AFTER I have submitted it to the Journal committee to enter in their computer. Last year I went back to the room and ask them to correct 3 errors!

Why do your eyes overlook them?????

LOL

Barb

[Michael B. Ross]

Yes, that is it. I sent you an email, but if you didn't get it....thanks. And, I got your email with the words. I appreciate it Barb.

Michael,

I mentioned recently a song by Legacy Five entitled, "Monument" that asks, "Where are the monuments we should be leaving to show our children the way to get home."

Is that the one? If so, I can get the words and email them to you.

Barb

[Marsha Lynn]

You know what drives me crazy? I can type in a post and re-read it a time or two be to sure it is okay and then, 3 seconds after I post it, glance at it and immediately see some glaring error. I don't know what it is about looking at it on the screen after I submit it that does that, but it happens to me all the time.

Ah, but if you edit it within three seconds, the "this post has been edited" line doesn't get triggered and no one is the wiser unless they compare e-mail notification with what is actually on the board. That's always my goal -- to slip in the first (and hopefully last) edit within the "free" period.

BTW do you know how long that "free" edit time lasts?

Marsha

[Marsha Lynn]

One more question for this hijacked thread. Do the moderators receive notification when posts are edited? It seems like that would be a good thing in that someone couldn't go back and slip in something offensive via an edit. However, it could also be quite annoying if you have people like me who indulge in excessive editing. About the fourth edit for a post, I start to wonder if anyone is watching.

Marsha