This post is just to test whether or not I can actually delete other people's content. It will be nuked, if that's possible, as soon as anyone responds to it.

If I can't nuke the thread itself, but only my own post, then whoever responds can delete their own post.

Response.

I was about to try this myself.

No Rapture yet. I'm still here.

I think you can only delete your post if it is the last one in the topic. If you can delete other folks posts that would be interesting.

Another test. I don't have the little "X" I usually have to delete posts, in the post that starts this thread. Let's see if it reappears in this post.

This post should kill the little x.

Secret Beans.

I can't explain, it's just something my wife keeps saying...

I'd tell you, but I can't betray the sisterhood.

FM.

Awww, the poor little x. What did it do to deserve this?

Bring it, Meat.

And don't hold the ball so hard, OK? It's an egg. Hold it like an egg.

Capital punishment only applies to Big X. Little x is safe.

This thread delivers.

Wait, what? Does this have anything to do with kitties? No? Never mind.

My local forum is run by a programmer. So anyway, we had all this drama going on, and Mr. Genius Programmer had a great idea. He made an "author moderated" forum, in which you could do roughly what Loh describes in the first post in this thread: Anyone who started a thread in the "author moderated" forum could delete any post in the thread they started, even if the post was by someone else. You couldn't delete the whole thread, but you could delete all the posts but the first one, and you could edit the title and the text of that one.

Needless to say, that didn't do shit to reduce the amount of drama. Drama queens can make drama out of anything.

I had to use that forum myself, after my "Reports from the Tiny Republic of Birtherstan" thread got to be too much for the RWNJs. There was no limit on smileys on that forum.

So I'd put up a post on my thread about the loathsome birfers, and the next five posts would contain x 1000. They were essentially vandalizing my thread so no one could follow along. So I started a "Reports from the Tiny Republic of Birtherstan" thread in the "author moderated" forum, and deleted abusive or off-topic posts.

Then I had to read in the other areas of that board for the next six months (until I finally quit that hellhole) about how I wasn't allowing "rational discussion on the merits" about the birthers and what a coward and a baby I was for not allowing them to vandalize my thread.

But I still thought that x 1000 wasn't really "rational discussion on the merits". I can be stubborn like that.

Don't ask me to create an "author moderated" forum on Fogbow. I'm not a programmer and I have no idea how to do such a thing, and it would just cause more drama. The answer is no.

Anyway, I apologize again for yanking the whole thread yesterday, and it won't happen again. Somebody made a great suggestion how to handle such things, so now there's a "Foggy's Forum" that only Rhoda and I can see. The next time I decide to yank a thread, I'll put it in there, and then merge selected posts from it back into a visible forum so nothing important is lost. I make mistakes occasionally, and try not to repeat them.

Meany At least you could let us post 1000 smileys once in a while

It's not even that hard, really. You post 10, and then copy-and-paste those 10 times, and then copy THAT and paste it 10 times ...

Serious question: cant you get the thread back from a one of your backup copies? It depents if one thread is worth the amount of work to do that but its an idea at least.

Is it me or is anyone else being suddenly logged out every third click? Then having to make 3 & 4 attempts at getting logged back in?

It’s starting to get annoying, and it seems to be getting worse.

I'm not having any problems at all.

It's you.

Ooops, wrong thread... sorry