Hi,

I want to propose this after looking at an user like konstantiniyyr.

Which is a very good example of an egoistic user; when he's done asking a question, and has received the help he needed, he wipes all of his posts, disrupting the discussion so others that have the same problem in future, cannot be helped. This user has only content with a dot "." because he replaces all his posts with that to empty it.

A lot of other forums on the internet have the rule that you aren't permitted to do that, because as I hinted, any finished discussion can help others that are searching it later, the content serves as "an issue (or case) being documented". Forums like these do not just provide service to individual users by answerring their questions, but are used in many times that amount by those that want to learn from it (a lot of guests too).

Therefore, I believe you should make it harder for egoistic users to disrupt existing knownledgebases (their topics and posts on which others have responded, helping them). I was actually searching for something today, and found a topic made by that use I linked, but it was like the people that helped him solve his problem were talking to a wall. I really cannot stand that behavior, and it does the opposite of helping people that end up there.

Actually, if you disable edits (or deleting) 10 minutes after posting, the problem would be solved.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #3

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@DvL:
According to the Forum Software the author of a contribution can customize or even delete the complete text of his/her post at any time.
This wouldn't really solve the problem, but handicaps users, who want to correct an error or typo of their just written post.

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #3

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@DvL:
The only option for the Admins of this Forum is to delete Forum members, who obviously are trying to prevent, that other users will get the same information they have already gotten, but this is not easy to decide.

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If i may chip in, i believe that the time to allow edits would be great at 30 min.
People either edit most instantly or they make an added post if it takes longer.
The prevention of the loss of knowledge is more important than an edit-time-window being too short.

Greetings.

edit: i just realized this could make updating Opening posts rather difficult offcourse.

I support that proposal... Deleting (legit) posts prevents inexperienced people like myself from learning... If it is indeed fake or spam, then yes, management should *poof* it with consequences. /me tosses in his 2 cents.

Zitat von DvL im Beitrag #1

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I want to propose this after looking at an user likekonstantiniyyr. Which is a very good example of an egoistic user; when he's done asking a question, and has received the help he needed, he wipes all of his posts, disrupting the discussion so others that have the same problem in future, cannot be helped.

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #8

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That is why I simply deleted the related user

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Looks like it is possible, maybe he will see this thread and not erase his posts this time around

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #11

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@lfb6:
A new Forum member can choose every nickname, which is available (= not currently used by anyone else), but why do you want to use the nickname of a deleted user? Or are you the deleted user?

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Already one complaint in about this, and I didn't think about it either when I read your post above earlier. @hancor PM'd me about this due to he ran into issue today, and I'm sure I'd hit it really soon too trying to edit too.

I don't think we can do this type of edit blocking, for any amount of time (even weeks), because then none of us with guides or BIOS mods threads ect can update our first posts as needed (easily, without mod/admin intervention).
Due to that, I think we should not have an edit time period or it's going to cause continued grief for many, worse than the original issue being discussed here