I'll keep this simple.

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Edit to Add Jul 19, 2008:  If you say you're going to leave the mod staff will be sure to help you along.  Threatening to leave the forum as a dramatic technique will not be tolerated.  If you say you're going to leave the forum the mod staff will ban you account to help you follow through on your actions.  We're here to help.

I'm glad that steps are being taken on the admin side to reduce the aesthetic impact of user decisions in how to handle content they own, by giving users the ability to delete their posts instead of merely editing out the content, should they so be inclined. 

Go Team Venture!

--fje

While I can only speak for myself, this was what I assumed it meant.  Since that was my thought without any other input, I can see where Kyle would feel it was obvious.  To say that he is 'falsely claiming' something, I think is a bit harsh.  It seems to imply some form of deceit, which it obviously isn't.   

These kinds of misunderstandings are, unfortunately, why there are lawyers.

I think you and S*S are talking about different things marpa. 

Hmmm...I must have lost something in the middle there.  My apologies.   

What I'd worry about is someone, in a fit of sulkiness or anger, going and deleting all their posts when, given a day or two to calm down, they wouldn't have done that.

But I also don't really want all the work of deleting/altering posts to fall on the mods. That's us. We have lives that don't involve constant editing.

How about this as a solution? We make a usergroup that has a delete button. If someone wants to delete posts, they can ask us, and we'll put them into that group. That way there's some communication and thought involved, but the control rests in the hands of the poster.

As it stands the mods don't have the ability to change whether or not a post's content can be edited or whether a person can edit the content of their posts or not.  There is currently work being done to work on this situation such this it is not abused which I believe is the concern from the admin's side at this point.  We'll be sure to let you know if/when things get updated.

As far as "waiting period" goes it would likely be less than a day as there almost always seems to be a mod around and for them it would simply be a matter or swapping the poster into a new user group in order to take care of the situation.

The rule have been appended to add:

Edit to Add Jul 19, 2008:  If you say you're going to leave the mod staff will be sure to help you along.  Threatening to leave the forum as a dramatic technique will not be tolerated.  If you say you're going to leave the forum the mod staff will ban you account to help you follow through on your actions.  We're here to help.

I thought that was already a rule.