Stop deleting your posts.

Here are a couple of threads that should help with this:

Yeah, not cool. I on the other hand do know which user did that, and I will be monitoring his/her behavior to determine if their account will continue active or not.

Actually I haven’t heard of this case until now. Please feel free to PM me with this sort of problem in the future, as I’m the only one who has access to the Rude! button click logs.

Every so often
I get one of those arror notes. Never had any idea what might cause it but yes, I suppose deletion would do that.

I’d rather a deleted post from someone who deemed their post wasn’t necessary then have threads cluttered.

For example, In The GT thread. The same question(s) are asked over and over. With the regular followers of the thread, most of them know the answer to the question(s) and will answer it. But often someone else may bet them to it by a minute. No need to have two identical posts in a row.

This happens often in more then that thread. I don’t see why it would be wrong for one to delete their own post.

Yep, if an email notification link no longer works its because the author of the post deleted it. (Note that the delete option is disabled for the first post that starts a thread.) Of course there may be legitimate reasons for deleting a post, which is why the option is available. But please don’t do so for pure mischief, which is otherwise known as rudeness, and which has clearly defined consequences here :

Deleting your own post isn’t ‘wrong’ but it is really unnecessary. We have lots of fun around here and extraneous posts don’t get us down. In fact, some of the best fun is had in ‘please delete this’ threads!

It is unfortunate that a post can trigger the notification, then be deleted, leaving unhappy followers. But, I don’t think there’s a solution that will please everyone. If you introduce a delay before notifications are sent, it still won’t catch every deleted post, but it might make people a bit upset that they aren’t getting notifications quickly enough. If you make posts undelete-able, that will certainly make a lot of people unhappy as well.

I think the best thing is to nicely encourage people to leave their posts intact for posterity, unless there is really a necessity to delete a post.

Actually, I just thought of a possible solution. Don’t let posts be ‘completely’ deleted, but leave a marker of some kind, the way opening posts of threads are handled now. Just extend that to every post. The content can be ‘edited’ out, but the post cannot ever go away. That might fix the error, even if it still won’t make everyone happy about notifications leading to empty posts.

I still think even better would be for people to not be so shy about just leaving their posts up. Clutter isn’t such a big issue here, is it?

Some guy named “administrator” had a thread going a few minutes ago and I tried responding but when I hit save the thread was gone! :expressionless:

What a hypocrite that guy must be. He reserves the right to delete his thread, but won’t let us do the same?

Sounds like a nice guy! :innocent:

I’m glad the test was canceled. It came out of no where, was caught completely off guard, I would have failed miserably.

Yeah time will tell…not sure though. Pretty sure I sent this same guy a PM five days ago and I’m still waiting for a reply. You’d think he had a big forum to run or something. Probably a millennial… :wink:

What a punk. I’ll permaban him. :sunglasses:

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Please tell me we are not infested with squirrels again :smiley:

Old bump but this issue has been irking me and seems to have been happening a lot lately for threads I’m subscribed to. I was about to make a new post but thought I’d scroll back a bit to see if it’d been covered before.

Is there perhaps a way to reconfigure the new-reply subscription email links so that they take you to the thread/new posts even if that last-most-recent one was deleted? As it is now, when I land on the error page I have to take note of which thread title is was, then go find it on the main page (or subforum page) and access from there. Minor hassle but it would be nice is the link could redirect somehow so that deleted posts wouldn’t kill the flow.

Hmm, not a bad idea. Redirecting wouldn’t be possible, but I could possibly include a link to the thread itself in the notification.

Correllux, I guess it has to do with SPAM posts that are marked/denounced and then disappear after being deleted, not only members posting and deleting.

Cool…thank you, sb! No rush of course….really is just a minor niggle.

Maybe we could implement Google Assistant screening features for those spammy spammer types. :slight_smile: