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11. November 2006 @ 14:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
To delete your accidental posts.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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tocool4u
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11. November 2006 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Why? You can just edit it to what you want it to say. And there is also a preview button so you preview your post before you post it.
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11. November 2006 @ 16:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Because sometimes some idiots, [cough]me[/cough] forget to change forums and post something in the wrong one or they post something redundant or one of the many other reasons.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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11. November 2006 @ 17:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by WierdName:
Because sometimes some idiots, [cough]me[/cough] forget to change forums and post something in the wrong one or they post something redundant or one of the many other reasons.
Just over type the original message with the word EDIT or something similar like MISTAKE or WRONG FORUM. No one will jump you for that as long as it doesn't happen several times a day.

Jerry



ddp
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11. November 2006 @ 17:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
just say edit in your post. besides which reduce your sig to forum specs of 50k.
2. An image-only signature should be less than 50kb in size, and be at most 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.
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11. November 2006 @ 17:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That?

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
ddp
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11. November 2006 @ 17:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
good.
bjhgames
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12. November 2006 @ 02:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This will be my very last post ever on Afterdawn. I don't know why I am bothering as it will most likely be deleted soon after posting.
I say this because Afterdawn apparently does not believe in free speech. They have arbitrarily deleted a couple of non-offensive comments that I made as a reply to a hysterical quandary on another thread.
I will not be a member of an organization that will mundanely censor my speech without just cause.
Goodbye forever!
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12. November 2006 @ 02:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@bjhgames - hmmm that's a very strange post, the only thing i can see are these comments here, they haven't been 'censored' -
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/419438



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bjhgames
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12. November 2006 @ 03:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There is something strange alright. I received an email stating the post had been updated. So I looked and the two posts had been removed completely. There were no other posts except the original.
Besides I made several replies to various posts -- how could you have known which one I was talking about?
Unless there was some sort of "glitch," the posts were removed and then put back after I complained.
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12. November 2006 @ 03:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
now that's just plain silly. individual posts within a thread cannot be hidden. posts within a thread can indeed be deleted, but NOT magically put back afterwards.

edit- i guessed you meant the thread i linked to, as i searched for your username and the word 'hysterical'.

also, when a post has been updated or edited the post reflects the time it was changed at the bottom of the post. Notice your posts haven't been 'censored' as you state..



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bjhgames
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12. November 2006 @ 03:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The posts were not there after I clicked on the link in the email.

I can see how you could have deduced that the word hysterical might have been in the original post.

I don't know much about programming but I do know that any system could easily be edited and restoring a deleted post does not seem magical.


Well you've managed to squeeze out a couple more posts from me but this will be the last forum on Afterdawn that I post to. I have requested that my account be closed and all personal information be deleted.

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12. November 2006 @ 04:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Those posts have been there i saw that thread....... And the email you got was that the THREAD has been updated NOT the post. Sometimes the cache of this website will not show the posts especially if your not logged in. Really no one did anything to your post....Calm down
bjhgames
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12. November 2006 @ 05:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Maybe I went off half cocked. I never had a problem with this website not showing any of my previous posts. I just went into a state of shock and didn't stop to think that there may be a less autocratic explanation.
I was logged in but I didn't try refreshing the page. Maybe it didn't load properly. I should have checked.
For this, Afterdawn has my humble apologies.
ddp
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12. November 2006 @ 06:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
bjhgames, mods can't edit a post without it showing an edited time & date. i've had emails from this site saying there was an update to a post & it showed the same thing i read hrs earlier. maybe the server is haunted, don't know.
bjhgames
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12. November 2006 @ 07:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just experienced a similar problem right here on this thread -- two threads temporarily disappeared. The page had been sitting there for awhile without being refreshed. I then checked my email and received notice that the thread had a new reply. I clicked on the link in the mail and it opened in a new tab in my Firefox browser. It appeared correctly. I posted another reply and everything was smooth as normal.
But then I closed the tab and refreshed the page that had been sitting there. I tried three times to no avail. The two new posts would not appear.
I had to navigate away and back to the thread to load the page with the new replies.


Sorry for jumping to conclusions. Glitches do occur.
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12. November 2006 @ 07:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you are forgiven.



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12. November 2006 @ 11:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I got 2 things to say,
1. The thread is kind of off track, and
2. If you edit the database itself, you could rig a page to make it look like something was posted at a different time but you would have to know what your doing and also have access to the database, something a mod doesnt have.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
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13. November 2006 @ 02:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
maybe the server is haunted, don't know.
Whenever I hear that word, it reminds me of creaky, as he always uses it 8)

Originally posted by WierdName:
If you edit the database itself, you could rig a page to make it look like something was posted at a different time but you would have to know what your doing and also have access to the database, something a mod doesnt have.
What about an Admin?


Now, getting back on topic, if you make any 'wrong posts' (double posts, for instance), you can either PM a mod about it, or better still, edit it, and delete the entire text in the body and title, and replace it with something like 'sorry for the double post, please delete this one'. That's what I did, and ddp did the rest. There were a total of 4 of my threads as yet, which he removed. (Thanks, ddp)
He also mentioned that posts cannit really be 'deleted', but just 'hidden', so that nobody can open them.

EDIT: Just noticed that this thread is about deleting posts, not threads. I don't know if the hiding thing is aplicable for posts too...

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. November 2006 @ 02:57

ddp
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14. November 2006 @ 07:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
posts can't be hidden, either edited or deleted
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14. November 2006 @ 12:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
posts can't be hidden, either edited or deleted
By a mod.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K
ddp
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14. November 2006 @ 12:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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14. November 2006 @ 12:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Using this web script.

Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
"Opinions are immunities to being told were wrong." - Relient K

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