It's a shame posts can't be deleted.
Boy, what a mess I made! I tried to post just one as "Cloning frames and texts to all pages". Seven posts with nearly the same information later, and only one is good. Have emptied out the others and plastered DUPLICATE on the title. It would be nice to get rid of those extra, empty posts. This would free up space for other posts and RAM for the microprocessor and stuff like that there. Or maybe they are deleted automatically if there's a title but no body?
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AFAIK there's no way to delete posts, but the admins can unpublish them.
In reply to AFAIK there's no way to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Good to know. Thanks.
In reply to AFAIK there's no way to… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have to use all upper case and multiple question marks here.
WHY ON EARTH CAN'T WE DELETE OUR OWN POSTS?????????
(This question isn't for you Mr. Schmitz ;-) It's for the admins, though I replied to your comment)
In reply to I have to use all upper case… by Howard-C
If I refresh my recent posts after you enter a post and you delete the post before I select it, I'll get an error. I don't think the webmasters want that to happen, I wouldn't. You are given total freedom to edit a post for about 12 hours, so I think it's good the admins are hesitant to delete posts.
In reply to If I refresh my recent posts… by mike320
It's only a message of "Page not found", not an "error". I'm really confused why all other sites I know allow deleting posts but MuseScore doesn't. Others have that problem too, but this isn't something to be afraid of. Web links don't lead to a crash like softwares, if the post is deleted there's simply a "Page not found", the same appearance as https://musescore.org/node/300000, which doesn't exist for now.
In reply to It's only a message of “Page… by Howard-C
Perhaps it's because they're reluctant to delete posts that have replies. Those replies would be deleted as well. If you delete the post and not the replies, and if enough people do it, the forum will take on a nutty appearance. Perhaps the ability to hide the post from the view of the author may be one solution. A more democratic way is to alert the respondents and let them vote on whether the post should be deleted or not. If the majority votes NO, then the original poster can appeal to the Eighth Circle of Hell, where postal arbitration occurs.
In reply to Perhaps it's because they're… by [DELETED] 29378932
It may simply be impossible to delete posts, they are all in a database. But they can get unpublished, which in the end has the same effect.
In reply to Perhaps it's because they're… by [DELETED] 29378932
You can check your message with the Preview button before publishing.
And you can make the necessary corrections in the same message.
You don't need to open many posts.
In reply to You can check your message… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Am I imagining that there is (used to be?) a feature on the forum wherein we are notified that new replies are added while we are writing our own replies? (This could be a feature of some other forum) This allows the user to view the new reply, and amend (reconsider) their input before publishing.
I’m on my phone now, and can’t confirm this feature.
In reply to Am I imagining that there is… by toffle
There's notification via email
In reply to notification via email by Jojo-Schmitz
The feature I am thinking of is a pop-up box that says something to the effect: “A new reply has been posted. View it now? (Y/N)”. Clicking yes opens the thread in a new tab for reference.
I would be very much in favour of this function on these forums. I often see posts which are overlapping/duplicating/ contradicting in ways that could easily be prevented if this opportunity was available.
In reply to The feature I am thinking of… by toffle
Something like that exists on musescore.com
In reply to The feature I am thinking of… by toffle
At one time you could not edit a post once it was replied to. At that time, if you tried to edit you post and someone posted a reply before you finished your edit, you would get an error of some sort that didn't really tell you what happened. I don't remember exactly, perhaps it was just the circle of death on a windows system and the site refused to post your edited post, or perhaps it was a message that told you the post could not be edited.