My deleted thread!!

Another forum I use did have problems with posts being edited after a reply had been made. It has now reduced the length of time in which an edit can be made to (I think) 4 minutes. That seems to work okay. It gives you time to notice a typo and sort it out.
(That forum also warns you if someone else has posted while you were writing your post and lets you see what it was.)

Every other forum I use has an edit function and its works fine no problems its most annoying not being able to do it here..

Oh, right. I don't know. I've never done any other forums except this one and MN.

Doesn't cause a problem on other forums to my knowledge.

I can understand that one. People would be answering the post as it first appeared, and then it wouldn't make sense. Could be very confusing. and we get confused enough as it is

I still don't understand why this is the only forum I use that doesn't let people edit their posts. I actually have a sort of conspiracy theory about it . Maybe mumsnet is the same.

such common sense, dear jingle

You should have a 24 hour-second-chance-to-read-it option. A ghost thread. Very feint but just readable. For those who missed the fun interesting conversation.

As I see it, it isn't the fact that a thread has been deleted, it's that there is no record of it ever having existed!

It would be helpful if the Notice that appears on the 'I'm On' section could be put on Active, until it disappears naturally.

LucyGransnet said "I did leave my post up about the thread being deleted for the better part of an hour (much longer than we would usually) so I hoped most people with an interest would see it. "

That is no use. People go away for various lengths of time - overnight, for a few days, maybe - then want to see what has happened in a thread that interested them.

that bags

Thanks

Have PM-ed you, pogs, rather than stoke a sputtering fire ;)

Am I allowed to ask which thread has been deleted. ?

I was wondering what GNHQ term as a personal attack? Some threads have been deleted for this reason, yet others - which seem to me to be positively oozing with vitriol, are allowed to stay.

I also think a note naming the thread with a little more explanation of the reason for deletion would help.

They used to give the information about deleted threads on the Forum index (if you could remember which topic it was posted on!) but not now.

I am prepared to accept GNHQ's dictum on "threads about threads" but where then can one discuss areas and topics such as this?
Expecting a thread to be deleted is like the feeling you get when a snowball is aimed at the back of your head!

But it is quite a long time since they behaved like that.

I recall them staying somewhere for a while. Couldn't say whether it was on Active or somewhere else though.

I think you're confusing me with someone else, Lona...

No, I don't think they stayed on Active either. (You're never wrong Ana )

I don't recall them ever staying on Active, but of course I could be wrong!

In reply to Lucy's second post, deleted threads don't stay on Active until they're bumped off, or Kitty's would still be there now. They just disappear...