Issue: When someone inmediately deletes his last post in a thread, the email notification system malfunctions.
How to improve on this glitch?
By not allowing post deletion. I can not find good reasons for it to be. If someone wants to delete his post's content, its easy as editing the post and leaving a “thanks for watching :-) ” quote or sort of. Quick tip, by the way: if you end a post with an emoticon, add an space after it. This way if your message is quoted the forum will still translate the emoticon code into the corresponding emoticon picture.
Delaying new post notifications by a small amount of time, like 15 or 30 seconds. I believe most “inmediate” deleters do delete his last post just after sending it. So, it should fix the glitch.
Now, down below a more important matter: thread deletion.
Thread deletion involves massive loss of information. I think this is bad.
A derailed thread against forum rules can get a quick edit if needed and then locked up. Problem solved. The thread information will still be available and its valuable information is preserved. Worthwhile content can still be preserved or even accessed. I am fine with this and bear responsibility for my actions or expression. You should too.
I am forwarding this thread to sb56637 for him to take a look. Have fun. :-)
I’m glad you got over it
There is a creator of course but I was fortunate to be raised without any religious programming.
Anyway, that talk is against the owners rules and we don’t want our captain to have to fire another silent torpedo here
I like the way the forum functions as is with editing threads & deleting posts.
I would even prefer the option to delete our own threads but I can see how that could lead to unhappy results.
Are you sure it is a problem, or is it just people allowing themselves to be manipulated? It seems like the solution is to fix one’s mind programs so as not to attract loss. Nothing is random. Thread deletion happens to those who allow disempowering beliefs into their subconscious. If they believe right, they create a reality without such problems. What we think defines our experience (as above, so below)… so by believing wisely, by thinking and believing higher, we attract unity instead of deletion. There are no limits.
Hi Barkuti and everyone else, sorry for my slow reply in this thread.
I do appreciate the idea, and I apologize for the inconveniences caused by deleted posts. I think the benefits of post deletion (but not entire thread deletion) outweigh the annoyances. If post deletion is disabled, the email links will indeed still work, but if the user changes the post to “[deleted]” or something it won’t really be any less annoying.
Of course, Barkuti’s suggestion of a delay before sending out the email would be the best solution. But unfortunately that would be prohibitively difficult to implement. The thing is, this forum software doesn’t have a good email notification system that fits our forum’s needs, so I had to cobble together a custom system myself. Using that same basic framework, I can’t think of a way to delay the notification email and check if the post still exists.
Wow that is nearly pretty much like myself replying to me.
Let me say the thread deletion thing came to me mainly because of a more or less recent thread (James Bond… :-D Butt not 007). I do not really miss anything of it, but there were some good jokes. Other deleted threads could bear more interesting content in a way or the other. The thing is the “damnation triggers” usually belong to very very few of the thread posters. So nukeing a thread when you could delete two or three offender's posts and leave some polite advice could be nicer. Just could be, of course.
Yep, absolutely, that’s always what I try to do first. But in the case of that particular thread… errrm, let’s just say that it had to go, the whole thing. :confounded:
Some threads should even be nuked before leaving the authors brains and fingers!
About this particular one, I do get what Barkutti says, but I would be more annoyed to get the “this post was deleted” instead.
Like some people that post a thread, there are developments and information emerging from that and for some reason the OP is “edited to deletion” by the thread maker. That is most annoying for me :zipper_mouth_face:
In simpler terms though, the message was: We each have a lot of influence over which of our posts or threads get deleted, and which do not. The way it works is pretty simple: To avoid getting posts deleted, don’t post the sort of things which get deleted. There’s even a handy guide for how to do that linked on every page.
It seems like the solution is to fix one’s mind programs so as not to attract loss. Nothing is random. Thread deletion happens to those who allow disempowering beliefs into their subconscious. If they believe right, they create a reality without such problems. What we think defines our experience (as above, so below)… so by believing wisely, by thinking and believing higher, we attract unity instead of deletion. There are no limits.
