People like to go on spurious unhinged rants, and then delete those posts as a precursor to flaming everyone, deleting their account and presumably bursting into tears. At least that's my observation.
@GuessTheLastMove said in #9:
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Your username would make sense had you really deleted your post!
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Your username would make sense had you really deleted your post!
@borninthesixties said in #5:
> Because Lichess lets them.
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> Seriously, this is the only site I'm a member of where you can pretty much delete any post you've ever made at any time. Most sites only allow you to do that for a short while after you post.
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> So, a better question would be - why does Lichess let people delete their posts at any time? It sure messes up discussions.
That is why when I participate in a discussion, I always quote the person I am talking to because it can't be deleted then and I won't look like I am talking to myself... hahaha. ... not that there is anything wrong with that... ;-)
> Because Lichess lets them.
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> Seriously, this is the only site I'm a member of where you can pretty much delete any post you've ever made at any time. Most sites only allow you to do that for a short while after you post.
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> So, a better question would be - why does Lichess let people delete their posts at any time? It sure messes up discussions.
That is why when I participate in a discussion, I always quote the person I am talking to because it can't be deleted then and I won't look like I am talking to myself... hahaha. ... not that there is anything wrong with that... ;-)
@Mrchess78 said in #16:
> Sometimes one can edit ones post, then submit it again, and accidentally end up with two posts the same (except for the edit of course).
> I must confess I have accidentally done this before now, and immediately deleted the unedited previous post.
That has happened to me before too... and we have to have the edit feature because sometimes I spell things terribly without checking before posting. If we have an edit feature though, people can always edit their whole post and just delete it... so... there are many ways to hide a post.
> Sometimes one can edit ones post, then submit it again, and accidentally end up with two posts the same (except for the edit of course).
> I must confess I have accidentally done this before now, and immediately deleted the unedited previous post.
That has happened to me before too... and we have to have the edit feature because sometimes I spell things terribly without checking before posting. If we have an edit feature though, people can always edit their whole post and just delete it... so... there are many ways to hide a post.
@Cedur216 said in #19:
> Durarbayli deleted his first post of his blog thread just to hide that it had 20+ dislikes. That's a prime example of the constant abuse of this.
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> (UPDATE: I see he closed his account overall, lmao, but I guess it had no effect on that?)
If something gets a lot of dislikes, it is probably better to delete it as not to offend more people... I think it is wise... People CAN make mistakes and it would be good to retract those, no?
> Durarbayli deleted his first post of his blog thread just to hide that it had 20+ dislikes. That's a prime example of the constant abuse of this.
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> (UPDATE: I see he closed his account overall, lmao, but I guess it had no effect on that?)
If something gets a lot of dislikes, it is probably better to delete it as not to offend more people... I think it is wise... People CAN make mistakes and it would be good to retract those, no?
Have you never had second sober thoughts about anything you have said or posted?
@Letpchess said in #25:
> That has happened to me before too... and we have to have the edit feature because sometimes I spell things terribly without checking before posting. If we have an edit feature though, people can always edit their whole post and just delete it... so... there are many ways to hide a post.
Atleast there's a feature where one only has a limited amount of time to be able to edit posts, after this alloted time you cannot. :).
> That has happened to me before too... and we have to have the edit feature because sometimes I spell things terribly without checking before posting. If we have an edit feature though, people can always edit their whole post and just delete it... so... there are many ways to hide a post.
Atleast there's a feature where one only has a limited amount of time to be able to edit posts, after this alloted time you cannot. :).
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@Mrchess78 said in #28:
> Atleast there's a feature where one only has a limited amount of time to be able to edit posts, after this alloted time you cannot. :).
Yes, I accidentally found that limit one time when I made a lot of spelling mistakes in long post. I finally had to let it go.
> Atleast there's a feature where one only has a limited amount of time to be able to edit posts, after this alloted time you cannot. :).
Yes, I accidentally found that limit one time when I made a lot of spelling mistakes in long post. I finally had to let it go.
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