What's the point of users not being able to delete their own posts anymore? :confused:

This has come up a few times already here and there.

Short answer?

You can.

I don't know where the misunderstanding lies, but post deletion is as possible now as it always has been.
Try again.

For instance, in the 'quick edit' pane. The delete button is between 'go advanced' and 'cancel'.

And in the advanced pane the option is at the top of the page as always.

in the 'quick edit' pane. The delete button is between 'go advanced' and 'cancel'.

And in the advanced pane the option is at the top of the page
Correct - for me, anyway. I can't speak for §outh§tar.
post deletion is as possible now as it always has been.
Incorrect - it was definitely missing for a while there. Maybe §outh§tar is now having the same problem I had. Weird.

Delete fails to appear in the The World section while it does for others, though for a while it did not.

It a embarassment of a mess, rampant inpetitude as usual.

Dunno.
Shows up for me there.
I was going to ask if it was in a particular subforum that this might be appearing.

It a embarassment of a mess, rampant inpetitude as usual.

There's the door, O Bitter One.
You won't be missed.

Dunno.
Shows up for me there.

So much more of a mess then.

It was not so bad before the shits were put in charge of the toilet.

The last I heard, moderation was not a mandate to put words into the mouths of others.

The poverty of it all is betrayed above all else by the inability to achieve anything else but the trade of insult.

It was not so bad before the shits were put in charge of the toilet.

More evidence of your failure to understand science and now logic.
The new moderators have nothing to do with the missing delete button.
Sorry about your luck.

The last I heard, moderation was not a mandate to put words into the mouths of others.

Moderators are people too, Sauna old lad.
Anyway.
Sounds like you're getting off on this victim garbage anyway.
Good luck with that.
It should do amazing things for your karma.

Hmm.
Is that what being a victim is for?
If you play the victim do you wrack up this karma paycheck where the world has to pay you back for all the crap that is done to you?
No wonder.

Too bad it doesn't work that way, but you keep pluggin' away.

So much more of a mess then.

It was not so bad before the shits were put in charge of the toilet.

The last I heard, moderation was not a mandate to put words into the mouths of others.

The poverty of it all is betrayed above all else by the inability to achieve anything else but the trade of insult.

I'm sure that I speak for the entire admin/mod team when I say,

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Yours truly,

Your friendly Biology & Genetics subforum moderator

The poverty of it all is betrayed above all else by the inability to achieve anything else but the trade of insult.

It's called hypocrisy, O Bitter One.

Note your entrance to this thread. From out of the blue, Herr Sauna spouts:
"It a embarassment of a mess, rampant inpetitude as usual."

That's an insult, O Mighty Victim.
And the "as usual" would indicate that this is not a momentary lapse.

There's no need to put words in your mouth, Sauna. You do quite well on your own.
Your own bitterness defeats you.

Rampant inpetitude as usual is the way the World is, at large, which is not news except that some prefer to be bounded in a nutshell and count themselves as kings of infinite space.

Rampant inpetitude as usual is the way the World is, at large, which is not news except that some prefer to be bounded in a nutshell and count themselves as kings of infinite space.

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Yes, O Bitter Hypocritical Victim.

some prefer to be bounded in a nutshell and count themselves as kings of infinite space.

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
--Anais Nin

Something to keep in mind. And, yes, I already realize this goes both ways. It's not a Truth, but something to keep in mind.

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Nah, the topic is one that has come up several times.
This weird missing 'delete post' thing.
Would be nice to get to the bottom of it.

Just time to lay off the bitter old guy.
It's pointless anyway.
He can't help himself.

I'm in the physics forum trying to delete a thread of mine, and, I swear, there is no delete button/option anywhere. I've gone 'advanced' and looked.

Look, I've even edited here and there's a delete button. There's no delete button there.

Dont worry. One day the internet will die, then your post will be deleted.

or the admin could go nuts and delete the database.

No, I don't think anyone could ever be that insane.

:rolleyes:

...inability to achieve anything but the trade of insult.

Nobody has yet said what they intend to do to fix the issue.

This has come up before.

Was it not then discussed between the moderators?

Did nobody yet attempt to get to the bottom of it?

Did nobody yet attempt to get to the bottom of it?

It's a pretty tricky bug, Sauna.
One that occurs only sporadically and for random users.
Computers are often beset with similar odd occurences.

Maybe it's sun spots?
The will of Moloch?

Anyway.
The mods aren't able to fix the problem. We don't have access to the software. Only the admin can do this.
And the admin hasn't yet tried to figure this out.
I think it's likely that this problem won't be solved.
It's probably an issue with the modifications made to the default vBulletin template.

Anyway.
You certainly never had a problem with the delete button, eh?
*chortle*

It's a pretty tricky bug, Sauna.
One that occurs only sporadically and for random users.
Computers are often beset with similar odd occurences.


Prattle prattle, prattle.

If it was not investigated, who knows what happens?

As was written before I certainly did have a problem, as described, and it was consistent, predictable over a period of time:

Delete appears in some sections but not in the others.

My guess is that PHP variables are somewhere preset to apply to each section discretely and somebody has made a mess of that.

If it was not investigated, who knows what happens?

Patience, Sauna.
You buddhists are an impatient lot, aren't you?
Want everything done today.
Now now now, screams the unruly child, I want my cookie NOW!

Heh.

My guess is that PHP variables are somewhere preset to apply to each section discretely and somebody has made a mess of that.

I did some limited googling to see if this has come up in other locations after software upgrades in vBulletin, and from what I've gathered, the setting is forum wide. Not distributed in a per-forum sort of way.

Also, note that it's not consistent.
I can delete posts in the physics forum.
But, I am a mod and in a different user group.
Why doesn't some other registered senior user go see if the delete button appears for them in the physics forum?

I went and checked my posts in each subforum and the delete button appears in each and every one.

Perhaps we could limit this to a precise subforum with a bit of concerted effort on the part of the user base?

I still suspect that the issue is a bit trickier than this. I suspect this because of its sporadic nature. There was also a bug concerning people being sporadically logged out/unable to stay logged in.

The thing is that this forum is heavily modified and the fault could be in any one of a hundred modifications made to the templates. Some sort of conflict.

I'm in the physics forum trying to delete a thread of mine,

A word has been brought to my attention that I missed before.

You say 'thread'.

Did you misspeak?

Users have never had te ability to delete threads. Only posts.

You used to be able to delete threads in the past if you were quick enough.

I'm sure I was able to delete a thread once. It was before anyone had replied.