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Hi Nituvious. Off topic was spammed with dirt last week-end.
How can I delete my own post ? It's not needed anymore.
cw

What is going on in here?!

Woot!

@codewalker: never reply to a spam posting. Use
the exclamation mark in the lower right corner of
the posting instead.

Greetings ... Kiffi

Yes, please don't.

Just report the post. By replying you are potentially sending the spammer a signal they got a live hit and they may send more bots back

Sorry, I got pissed off because this time it wasn´t just spam but porn spam and was there for quite some time.
Replying on it I was giving it extra attention to this forum to delete it, not replying to the spammer. That only
happens if I click on the spam links. But you´re right, next time I use that yellow triangle to report it.
I still have a question left : how can I delete a post ? I don´t see it anywhere.
cw

I think you are only given the option to delete the post, up until the time it has been read by at least one other person. Either that or there is a time limit.

In either case, once the conditions are met (X time passes, or 1 person other than you reads the post) you can no longer delete the post. When you do have the ability to delete there are two ways..

While viewing the thread, there will be an "X" icon, next to the red "!" icon for reporting posts.
Or you can click edit, and the tickbox for deleting the post will be at the top of the posting form, just above the Subject line.


Although perhaps that depends on the theme you are using in your profile.. I use the default phpbb, so I don't see a yellow triangle for reporting posts, I see a red exclamation mark instead. Either way it would be on the lower right hand side of your post. Or you could just use the post editing function to select "Delete post:"

In addition to Zach:
You can delete your own post as long as nobody replied to it. That's why deleting spam threads is easier for the mods when none replied...

c4s wrote:In addition to Zach:
You can delete your own post as long as nobody replied to it. That's why deleting spam threads is easier for the mods when none replied...

Thats rubbish! You just delete the thread as a moderator, job done!.. all posts removed. I dunno why they claim it makes it so difficult? Unless they have not given the moderators the option to delete threads, and if that is the case, then it is ridiculous.

Agreed, I have been a moderator on several forums, using several different board systems.

these days moderation is made extremely easy. You can delete all posts / threads made by a single user in one fell swoop if you wanted to.

I don't know how Phpbb does things as standard these days, or how the board is setup.. But a moderator can easily kill an entire thread by checking a box and hitting a button.

Or at the VERY least, immediately move said thread to a non-public forum, where further cleanup can be done.

codewalker wrote: I still have a question left : how can I delete a post ? I don´t see it anywhere.

On the style I'm using (subsilver2) there is a very small button with an exclamation mark near your own posts.

EDIT: ehm, sorry, that's for reporting the naughty posts. But near to it there is a very small button (again) with a "X". That's it.
It's there as already said only if it's the last post in the thread.

BTW: anyway sometimes a lonely SPAM message still survive, for some reason ...

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 17&t=47852

@LuCiFeR[SD], @Zach
I think I remember Rings saying something like: "Not answering in spam threads makes it easier for us to delete them".

That may indeed have been the case,

But I still see no logical reason for such a claim.

The only reason it would be made hard is if they don't want to delete legitimate users posts, no matter what. Then they would have to remove the spammers post from the thread while keeping it intact.. But that would just be silly. Nuke the whole thread - done.

there's an extra step in deleting a thread... it's SO much easier to delete the spambot and all of it's posts, but if someone has replied to one of the spambot's threads, the mods need to trawl through the subforums and delete the posts thread by thread... it's much more work.

best approach is to not reply and just report the post

citystate wrote:there's an extra step in deleting a thread... it's SO much easier to delete the spambot and all of it's posts, but if someone has replied to one of the spambot's threads, the mods need to trawl through the subforums and delete the posts thread by thread... it's much more work.

best approach is to not reply and just report the post

Now.. if you want to delete all posts made by a user in one fell swoop, then yes. They'd have to find each thread and delete it. But there is probably a mod out there that can take care off that by deleting all topics (not just posts) started by the user, and all posts within them.

Either way yes replying is bad. But selecting a couple of threads should take just a minute or two