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fred rosenberger wrote:There isn't one, and you can't.
The whole point of a forum is to save and preserve posts so that other can learn by reading questions other have asked. If you don't want something to be seen by everyone, you shouldn't post it in the first place.
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:What about poster's remorse?
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Devaka Cooray wrote:
Arvind Mahendra wrote:What about poster's remorse?
Poster can ask a moderator to delete the post.
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:
Devaka Cooray wrote:
Arvind Mahendra wrote:What about poster's remorse?
Poster can ask a moderator to delete the post.
How do you know this?
David O'Meara wrote:
Arvind Mahendra wrote:
Devaka Cooray wrote:
Arvind Mahendra wrote:What about poster's remorse?
Poster can ask a moderator to delete the post.
How do you know this?
We don't advertise it because we don't want to encourage posts to be deleted.
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:
David this is really unfair. What the new policy basically says is that there are no second chances with what you want to say or not say, and the only action you can take is feel remorse. Do you know how damaging this kind of thinking is? Just ask any teenager who gets his report card and thinks his life is now over because he failed to make the grade. You are encouraging poster's inertia with this policy. Posters will now wonder if they would like to take such a big gamble before making a post knowing that there is no recourse.
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:
David this is really unfair. What the new policy basically says is that there are no second chances with what you want to say or not say, and the only action you can take is feel remorse. Do you know how damaging this kind of thinking is? Just ask any teenager who gets his report card and thinks his life is now over because he failed to make the grade. You are encouraging poster's inertia with this policy. Posters will now wonder if they would like to take such a big gamble before making a post knowing that there is no recourse.
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Arvind Mahendra wrote:
David this is really unfair. What the new policy basically says is that there are no second chances with what you want to say or not say, and the only action you can take is feel remorse. Do you know how damaging this kind of thinking is? Just ask any teenager who gets his report card and thinks his life is now over because he failed to make the grade. You are encouraging poster's inertia with this policy. Posters will now wonder if they would like to take such a big gamble before making a post knowing that there is no recourse.
But if you post something that is incorrect (such as an answer to a question, or a code modification that isn't right) and that gets corrected other people that are making the same mistake can learn from it. That is kind of the whole point of the forums, really. What are you posting that you feel later should be deleted?
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Someone here once told me something wise. (This was by e-mail, not in the forums - so I'll allow him to stay anonymous if he wishes.)
He said that those who do all the work make all the mistakes. Everyone says something wrong every once in a while. We are human. If someone googles me, they first see I am active online. Then they read a sampling of posts - maybe. If they do, they see I am right most of the time. Or I was learning technology Y, X years ago. These are good things. Not having any presence doesn't seem better than being wrong a small percent of the time.
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paul wheaton wrote:I've looked at a lot of forums in the last few months. It would seem that about half have the same policy.
There have been times that people have come to this forum and they were remarkably persuasive and their persuasion succeeded in getting me to change my mind. These people usually have a complete grasp of why things are the way they are, and they propose something that meets all of the needs. Usually something we have not considered before.
Statements like "this is really unfair" don't strike me as persuasive.
I think that if someone felt strongly enough about it, then they would choose to use a site other than JavaRanch.
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