New SJ Owner

[da man]

And I meant to say tried in that last post, not tired, BUT I CAN'T GO BACK IN TO FIX IT!

 

[Jeff]

Sorry guys, I'd set it at 5 minutes when I took over the board (up from what I thought was 0), and then decided to up it to 48 hours, but forgot to actually up the limit in the admin panel... my apologies.

That's fixed now, so you can edit anything you posted in the last 48 hours. If you need something edited beyond that, please PM a staff member.

 

[da man]

Thank you for your prompt action. I will now seek medical attention for the stroke I gave myself by yelling about this.

 

[steveu]

But yet you can type so perfectly...

 

[Doc Holliday]

And I meant to say tried in that last post, not tired, BUT I CAN'T GO BACK IN TO FIX IT!

This is awesome.

 

[DeskMonkey1]

I really lament the inability to delete old posts. I went through a deep depression about a year ago and some of the stuff I posted, I would really like to go away.

I abandoned an account I had for several years due to the inability to delete because I had used my real name and while I didn't really cross any lines, I still had some posts that were, how should I say it, not exactly vanilla. Knowing it's still there makes me cringe (one post being a very valid complaint virtually every response agreed with, yet not flattering) because hiring managers can search for that.

 

[BDC99]

this is a site about sports and journalism, not bathroom humor.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where'd you get that idea? Most of the best threads on this site have little to do with either. While many of us are/were in the business, it's become about a lot more than that. The journalism discussions are regretfully a fraction of what they were, and the sports threads more often than not turn into Pishing matches. But the crude and gallows humor also help make it fun (within reason).

 

[Jeff]

I really lament the inability to delete old posts. I went through a deep depression about a year ago and some of the stuff I posted, I would really like to go away.

I abandoned an account I had for several years due to the inability to delete because I had used my real name and while I didn't really cross any lines, I still had some posts that were, how should I say it, not exactly vanilla. Knowing it's still there makes me cringe (one post being a very valid complaint virtually every response agreed with, yet not flattering) because hiring managers can search for that.

This is the kind of stuff I'd be open to making exceptions for and temporarily give you the ability to delete your posts so you can do a one-time cleanup. I'm not going to let folks do this regularly, but there are certainly times it's warranted.

I'd need more info plus I'd be double-checking it with the moderators as they know user history a lot better than me.

PM me with more details.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Please restore the ability to delete posts, And the ability to change our user names for seasonal and fun purposes.

Sorry, neither of those are going to happen.

I'm curious--why do you want to delete posts? Historically, I've rarely had good-intentioned users wanting to delete their posts; more often one user baited another, then tries to delete the baiting post or edit it out. I generally like to give folks a 5 minute courtesy period to fix typos, etc, but after that you'll need to contact a mod if you want something edited or deleted.

Changing user names on a whim isn't happening either. People get to know one another through their usernames, so letting users randomly change their names reduces the relational trust necessary for this type of community to thrive.

It might be possible to make it so you can have user titles just below your username that you can customize just like you customize your signatures--not sure if it's technically possible or even a good idea, but I'll look into it.

If you were outed and need to a new account to preserve your anonymity, then contact one of the staff members and we can help. Or if you accidentally made a typo when you signed up. But otherwise usernames aren't changing.

In general, I won't be making many policy changes around here--this site runs pretty smoothly, the mods know what they're doing, and my job is to support and enable them. And thank them for volunteering their time to help make this a great community.

Also--if you ever have a problem with a particular mod or something they did, please PM me. Publicly ripping the mods is a no-no, but I'm happy to discuss it privately, as long as you keep the tone civil and the context private. Again, no surprises here--based on what I read in the moderation log, Lucas ran this ship the same way.

Now, back to asking me to fetch your preferred beverage...

Hmmm...
Jeff, I don't think is your first rodeo.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I'm curious--why do you want to delete posts? Historically, I've rarely had good-intentioned users wanting to delete their posts; more often one user baited another, then tries to delete the baiting post or edit it out. I generally like to give folks a 5 minute courtesy period to fix typos, etc, but after that you'll need to contact a mod if you want something edited or deleted.

Jeff is no stranger to message boards ..

That said ... The ability to edit posts ...
I may go back two or three pages on a thread to quote something and then want to add a photo or bold it .... I just tried to that with my previous post.
I don't have that ability with the quite quote function. And the post reply function only allows you to go down through a thread so far ...


Also I think faster than I type and often omit or misspell words, its nice to fix them and not look like a complete moron.

 

[BDC99]

I don't think it's unreasonable to be able to edit posts in the short term, but if you're just editing for a typo or something, who cares? If you have an issue like DeskMonkey's that's about the only reason I can see for allowing deleting posts, and exceptions should be made. But I've never even considered deleting a post. I guess I'm not that controversial.

 

[da man]

I don't think it's unreasonable to be able to edit posts in the short term, but if you're just editing for a typo or something, who cares? If you have an issue like DeskMonkey's that's about the only reason I can see for allowing deleting posts, and exceptions should be made. But I've never even considered deleting a post. I guess I'm not that controversial.

Some of us are editors. We care.