Bump on down.

Ignore - testing editing feature.

Carol

Is anyone aware of ANY method to DELETE a post? If you edit a post to remove all content, when you try to post the updated, edited, blank version, you get an error message. Is there any way to DELETE an entire post - to remove all traces of the post?

As far as I know you cannot delete the whole post?? I've tried it but all it does is remove ALL the posting (words) but the post itself stay on :o(

If someone knows please share...

Thanks for letting us know about the new feature :o)

Nancy

Nancy, as far as I know, you can't even do that. If you try to remove all content and repost (the updated, blank posting), it results in an error message. It appears that there has to be some content but I don't know how much. I don't think you can edit a previous post to a blank post.

By the way, this thread is a year old. I chose this one for testing so as to not annoy users by using a thread that had subscribers. :)

Carol

Oops...you're so right!! Never even noticed the date,lol...

You would think there would be a way to remove your own post but maybe they leave that up only for the powers that be?

If when you edit the post, it won't let you enter a zero length post, you can probably just enter a nonsense tag and close it like this:

<nothing></nothing>

That way the post won't be blank, gardenweb will accept it, yet nothing will be displayed in the body of the post.

I play around on the HTML forum and usually just edit the post to contain the single word "deleted".

No, that won't be accepted either. But I did just find out how a 2012 thread got bumped to the top of the forum without any obvious recent posting. From the GardenWeb staff: "Members cannot delete posts, but we can. Most likely the post was bumped up because it was spammed and we removed the spam post."

Makes perfect sense. :)

Carol

testing

This post was edited by chuggerguy on Sun, Sep 22, 13 at 20:48

Hahaha! Point made!

But yours does leave the "edited by" tagline whereas the other thread had no trace of any recent post.