Deleting Multiple Posts

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:47 pm

Because of the increasing frequency of multiple posts caused by the faulty Board software, I think it might be useful if people become aware of the following:

1) If you write your post and click the submit button, but nothing happens AND/OR you eventually get an error and debug mode response, DO NOT CLICK ON SUBMIT AGAIN. In fact, your post has gone and will appear on the Board.

2) If you do get excited and click on Submit a number of times, you will then get a number of identical posts on the Board. (This is becoming a daily occurrence and I trust our new moderator will do something about it soon.)

3) BUT you CAN remove the unwanted multiple posts. Here's how: when you submit a post and it appears on the main part of the Board, click on that item and you will see in the section containing your post an 'Edit' button up in the top right corner of that section. Click on that, and your original post re-appears in draft form. But below the pane containing your draft message, there are five check boxes, the bottom-most one of which is 'DELETE this post'. Check that box and then submit, and that copy of your post disappears from the main board. Repeat however many times are necessary to remove the multiple posts.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:53 pm

I think the Delete only works if your post is the current Last post in the thread. If someone comes along and replies to your post, then you can no longer delete your post (afaik).

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:57 pm

Thanks George -- that may be so. Maybe I have just been lucky and have gotten in and deleted my multiple posts before anyone else posted. But it might be useful if someone could try it out on existing multiples...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:41 pm

Thanks for the info, Ive managed to delete two of my duplicated posts.
One other though I could not delete, However I did an edit and simply replaced the whole entry with a single full stop. It made the thread look a little more aesthetic.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:38 am

Thanks sjj1805 -- was the one you could not delete followed by other postings, and were the ones you succeeded with, final postings?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:29 am

Ken, yes you were right. The one that I could not delete had entries after mine.
The one's I could delete were at the end.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:36 pm

It's not necessary to use the 'Edit' button Ken - if your post is the last in the thread and it is 'deleteable' (??) then to the right of the 'Edit' button is a small square icon with a cross on it - clicking on that will allow you to delete the thread directly.

EDIT - OOOPs - no not delete the thread - delete the POST

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:05 pm

Thanks Brian -- as I've said before here, you learn something every day on this Board!

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:33 am

Ain't that the truth Ken

btw, I'd like to thank you for pointing out this ability to folks -- we've seen a number of double posts (no fault by the poster -- it's due to the increased number of error messages that are happening on the initial post).

Being able to delete the duplicates is good -- so thanks for starting this thread

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:34 am

No problems, George. BTW, I notice that our esteemed moderator has now posted a stickie on this subject at the top of the Board.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:17 pm

BrianCee said: "It's not necessary to use the 'Edit' button Ken - if your post is the last in the thread and it is 'deleteable' (??) then to the right of the 'Edit' button is a small square icon with a cross on it - clicking on that will allow you to delete the thread directly."

I'm sure he meant to say "delete the posting."

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:05 am

Thanks Keith -- that's the way I read it too; and I tested it and it worked to delete my message...

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:05 am

kebrinton wrote:BrianCee said: "It's not necessary to use the 'Edit' button Ken - if your post is the last in the thread and it is 'deleteable' (??) then to the right of the 'Edit' button is a small square icon with a cross on it - clicking on that will allow you to delete the thread directly."

I'm sure he meant to say "delete the posting."

Yes indeed - my error - it does indeed delete the POST - not the thread, - although that could be useful sometimes !!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:45 pm

No similar thread in Media Studio forum.
I just by accident created a duplicate in that thread but there is no way of deleting it.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:50 pm

If you open the thread, and yours is the last post -- you should see in the heading line on the right hand side options to Quote, Edit, and an "X" to delete it.