I was half joking about my balls but there’s loads of stuff with personal details or what have you that I could end up posting here, be it an image or copy and pasting something that I thought was a link.
I appreciate what the mods do but the fact is that they can’t always be here and it could be hours until someone is able to remove it.
absolutely. don’t think its for anyone else to necessarily decide what content of yours stays up or not, and the lack a feature enabling me to edit or delete posts has put me off posting in certain threads. always found it a bit weird that it’s not enabled here as its a thing on pretty much every single other platform similar to dis.
on a practical level, there was a ridiculous situation a year or so ago where I had to get all my selfies individually deleted by flagging them for a moderator to then go and delete them. just remember being halfway through that and thinking ‘this is really fucking silly’.
also, I don’t think there’s anyone on the boards edgelordy enough to go and edit their posts in order to cause trouble by changing, for example, the meaning and context behind other replies.
In the bad ol’ days this sort of thing would happen a lot.
Also more likely to happen from new users - there are also A LOT of dormant accounts and alt accounts some users have… I would love to think we could all trust everyone not to abuse the system.
spose a trial run wouldn’t hurt to see if that’s the case, right? maybe the ability to edit or delete your own posts could be rolled out to users with say, over 100 replies?
Even if a mod has edited a post and the edits can’t be viewed, it still shows that the post has been edited. So it wouldn’t really work as a way to cause trouble.
I think if we were going to let people edit they’d need the option to hide the original post, otherwise their accidental ball pics would still be visible to anyone who looked at the edit and then what’s the point?
How long is long enough though? Usually the most controversial times to edit the meaning of a post that lots of people have replied to is within a few hours when thread is most active.