Delete a thread
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Delete a thread
I've noticed occasionally that threads vanish, and wondered how it happens. Not mods, I guessed, because they lock threads and don't delete them.
For example there was a magazine salesman we recognised and had a go at. His thread suddenly vanished. Yet the previous thread run by his boss (now banned) remains intact.
I just tried on one of my own thread which had only three posts total. I deleted the first post and the thread vanished.
So a thread can be vanished but only by the OP.
Sorry if everyone already knew that.
For example there was a magazine salesman we recognised and had a go at. His thread suddenly vanished. Yet the previous thread run by his boss (now banned) remains intact.
I just tried on one of my own thread which had only three posts total. I deleted the first post and the thread vanished.
So a thread can be vanished but only by the OP.
Sorry if everyone already knew that.
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Mods can - and do - delete threads as well as lock them.
Admins have even greater powers - too terrible to mention, quake in your very boots sort of stuff.
And yes, you are correct that if the OP (or a mod) soft-deletes the first post, then the thread disappears - and the OP can only soft-delete. Of course, mods can resurrect a soft-deleted thread / post.
Hard delete is total bye-bye, which can be done by mods if required - though very rarely. Spam sometimes gets that treatment.
SD
Admins have even greater powers - too terrible to mention, quake in your very boots sort of stuff.
And yes, you are correct that if the OP (or a mod) soft-deletes the first post, then the thread disappears - and the OP can only soft-delete. Of course, mods can resurrect a soft-deleted thread / post.
Hard delete is total bye-bye, which can be done by mods if required - though very rarely. Spam sometimes gets that treatment.
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Talk to the hand cos' the mods ain't listenin' .... 
There are frequent threads started on JetBlast with moans about censorship etc. on PPRuNe...... suggest mike-wsm waits for the next one to come along and add to the hamsterwheel therein.
As a mere mortal, you can delete your own thread, as long as nobody has replied to you yet.
There are frequent threads started on JetBlast with moans about censorship etc. on PPRuNe...... suggest mike-wsm waits for the next one to come along and add to the hamsterwheel therein.
As a mere mortal, you can delete your own thread, as long as nobody has replied to you yet.
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Talk to the hand cos' the mods ain't listenin' ....
Question asked, mod responds.
What is your problem, Mixture?
As a mere mortal, you can delete your own thread, as long as nobody has replied to you yet.
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Meaning what, exactly?
Question asked, mod responds.
What is your problem, Mixture?
Question asked, mod responds.
What is your problem, Mixture?
Lets just leave it at that. There were never any negative implications in my comment, I was simply attempting to take the p*ss at those people who regularly turn up in various corners of PPRune moaning about the purported censorship etc. that we all know doesn't really happen.
The mods do a great job. I know what hard work it is to be a mod on busy forum such as this !
Ceasefire ?
Last edited by mixture; 16th November 2012 at 08:47.
