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Twilight
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Joined: 27 Sep 2004
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 		Repeat Posts
Is there a way to remove post if you find one to be a repeat? I have some information I would like to post to the puzzles forum, but hesitate to due so not wanting to be a repeat (it is hard for someone new to the board to search through all the posts since there are thousands of them and some topics are covered often, but maybe not your specific topic. For example there are 640 post about the 404 error page, but it has changed so often, do any of them cover my topic?) If there is a way that either I or a moderator could remove my post if it was redundant, I would be a little quicker to get involved.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:48 pm
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SpaceBass
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 		Admins and moderators can delete posts, but they probably won't. At most, if your post is redundant, it will be labeled so and locked to help prevent future posters from duplicating your topic as well. Of course, mods will only lock if they can find and link a specific example of another post or thread that makes yours redundant.

If you've performed a diligent search and you can't find what you want to post about, go ahead and post it. Most people around here know that it's bad form (not to mention rotten manners) to shout someone else down just for being a repeat. Hopefully, they'll even give you a few tips about how to refine your searches to find what you were looking for. Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:37 pm
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Shad0
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 		Re: Repeat Posts
While we're on the subject, you can delete one of your own posts if -- and only if -- it's the most recent post. So if you accidentally double-click on the "Submit" button or something like that, look in the top right corner of your post. Next to the "edit" and "quote" buttons, you'll see a button with "x" on it. If you wish to delete your post, and that button is available to you, go for it!

Once someone else has posted, that button will disappear, and then, as SpaceBass said, only a moderator or administrator can delete your post -- and they generally won't, not even if you ask them too. You can always edit it into oblivion by replacing all substantive content with "ignore me" or something like that, but the placeholder will remain for all time.
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SpaceBass
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 		Re: Repeat Posts
Shad0 wrote:
You can always edit it into oblivion by replacing all substantive content with "ignore me" or something like that, but the placeholder will remain for all time.

You can, but I strongly discourage it. Wink
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 		Another option is strike-outs.

Just select the troutiest part of your post and put [ strike ]...[ /strike ] tags around it. That way people will know exactly what you wish to be ignored, and that you recognise that you have erred. This will usually help you to avoid the anger of the flamers out there.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:47 pm
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Twilight
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 		Bringing this question back due to confusion
I am confused. Based on the answers I got to this question, I finally worked up the nerve to start a thread (after doing some searching and not finding the same information.) My thread was closed and linked to another thread (I have no idea how I missed the thread it was linked to because it does contain every word I searched for.) This does not bother me as it was done politely and I did obviously miss a thread that I could have extended. The part that confuses me is that the thread that it was linked to only got three replies before it was abandoned. This was because one of the three is someone saying that it is redundant and linking to four places where it had been before and another reply is someone telling people to search and read before posting. This confuses me for two reasons.

1. It seems odd to link a locked thread to another thread that was left alone (if not locked itself, I have not tried to post to it yet) for the same reason.

2. It seems to me that the thread that mine was linked to was killed a little hasty IMHO. Here is the link to it. http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=69741&highlight=#69741. The four links that were posted to show why this thread was a repeat are three links to the same thread and one to the wiki. The link to the wiki should not count as redundant (again IMHO) since at least some of us would like to have it on the forum also. The other three links are to a thread that was specificly about one update of Axons. It would be nice to have a thread to discuss ideas about who Kamal's sister is, since adding any newer information to Discuss the Fable Axons does not make sense.

I hope this does not sound like I am just whining because my thread got closed. This is just a topic that I am interested in and would like to have a thread to discuss it in as new information comes out, but at the same time would like to follow the guidelines of the community also.

Any advice or explanations?

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 		Maybe a little hasty lockering, but nobody's perfect. So please go post there, and extend the discussion. Take over the thread and make sure your idea gets the full airing. What happened to kamal's sister is, after all pure spec, and at the moment this is still just people matching her up with other characters with little support. Hints yes. So better to keep all the random spec in one place.

But we really do prefer not to keep starting new threads when there may be some history to the idea and it should all be viewed together. Otherwise people keep starting new threads and reinventing the wheel, when we really want all that energy invested in new thoughts and new research and not restating the old stuff.

And yes there is a gray area about what's totally new and "wasn't that discussed three months ago and is that long enough to start a new thread with this new evidence to refresh our collective recollection"?

Keep up the good work!
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