Forums

OP Delete Capabilities

• WoodyJeep 1,961 Posts

  Thu, Jun 29 2017 7:55 AM

  Would someone please explain to me why the Original Poster of a thread doesn't have the ability to delete his own thread?

  Now, again, I will have to read another same-old-thread about a player wanting to join a new club.  They will probably get 5 club invites a week even though they have made their move months ago.

  While I'm on a rant, why isn't there an easier way for club owners to delete threads in their own club forum?  I want a delete button right next to each thread so I don't have to open every one, pick the whole thread or parts of it, sacrifice a new born, get nailed to a cross, state a reason for the deletion, then choose another delete button and then get kicked back to the first page of the forum when I'm working on the third page.  And sometimes, I get this "Oops" error that kicks me out of our forum completely if I click all of those buttons faster than the WGT servers can keep up.

  And another thing...,  never mind.  Why am I wasting my breath.

• alosso 21,073 Posts

  Thu, Jun 29 2017 11:24 PM

  Why care for CC threads? They disappear in oblivion by themselves...

• Bluesteelie 2,021 Posts

  Fri, Jun 30 2017 3:39 AM

  I have also lost the ability to delete my clubs posts, I have 19 pages, The delete tab is missing. WGT refuses to do anything, Every page is still there since i started my CC. Alosso my brother, not one has disappeared. Oh crap im wasting my ink again.

• borntobesting 9,710 Posts

  Fri, Jun 30 2017 11:11 AM

  WoodyJeep:

  Would someone please explain to me why the Original Poster of a thread doesn't have the ability to delete his own thread?

  Now, again, I will have to read another same-old-thread about a player wanting to join a new club.  They will probably get 5 club invites a week even though they have made their move months ago.

  Giving OP the ability to delete a thread that he or she started could open up a huge can of worms. Someone could start a really nasty thread using really foul language. Leave it up just long enough to offend quite a few people maybe even make sure a certain person sees it.   Then delete it before a mod has a chance to see it and deal with it and the OP in an appropriate manner. Thereby bypassing the  forum posting rules making this forum a total joke.

• WoodyJeep 1,961 Posts

  Tue, Jul 4 2017 10:22 AM

  alosso - You are just wrong, but I will elaborate anyway, the threads in my clubs forum don’t delete themselves and they better not because there’s some good information that I want to keep. 

  borntobesting - I guess you are special, or again, just wrong.  My posts go through a moderator before they show up on one of the Main boards.  After that, I should own my post since I wrote it.

  More waste of breath, except …

  - Happy Independence Day!!!!! -

• WoodyJeep 1,961 Posts

  Thu, Jul 6 2017 8:13 AM

  pdb1,

  I appreciate your comment and you taking the time to illustrate instructions, but I guess you can't understand how cumbersome it is to clean out your forum since you don't do it. Or, perhaps you don't get that many forum posts.

  I want our Nice and Friendly forum to be a wealth of valuable information for current members to reference and also for new members to read through.  How is a new member going to keep interested in absorbing the content if 95% of the threads are not worthy of a read.

  Our forum is 5 pages and I'm due to trim about a half a page. 

• Bluesteelie 2,021 Posts

  Thu, Jul 6 2017 7:08 PM

  My Delete button is just plain missing, all the time for over 1 year now. Asked WGT and no reply. My forum pages is over 36 and piling up. Im going to need a bulldozer and a paper factory pretty soon. Thanks WGT

• alosso 21,073 Posts

  Thu, Jul 6 2017 10:17 PM

  WoodyJeep:

  alosso - You are just wrong, but I will elaborate anyway, the threads in my clubs forum don’t delete themselves and they better not because there’s some good information that I want to keep.

  I didn't say that they deleted themselves, but newer threads pile above them. Thus, the older ones disappear in the bottom (and no search function to find them).