Sunday, July 14, 2002
Help me solve this mystery...
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 11:01 PM
I need some help solving a little site mystery. With our current "slow server" problems, people aren't waiting for their posts to process (it can take up to 60 seconds, but it has never failed on me yet), and they're hitting stop, submit, and the posts end up being processed twice. I can understand why this is happening (people are naturally impatient), and I hope to get it fixed sometime today. What I don't understand, however, is why people are editing their posts to say "deleted" or "whoops" instead of deleting them. I'm sure that if you knew how to delete your posts, you would, so this is why I'm confused. When I log in as an administrator, this is what I see in the upper right corner of every message:
To delete the message, I click on the "X". For a while I thought that everyone had this option, but I later learned that this wasn't the case. Tonight I logged in as a "regular" user, fresh account, and after I posted, this is what I saw:
I was able to delete my own post. So the question is, what are you guys seeing? Do you see the "Delete this post"? What about when you click on EDIT POST and then click the DELETE POST check box? Does your post delete then? Feel free to post screen shots if you need to show what you're seeing. I'd like to get this solved once and for all.
To delete the message, I click on the "X". For a while I thought that everyone had this option, but I later learned that this wasn't the case. Tonight I logged in as a "regular" user, fresh account, and after I posted, this is what I saw:
I was able to delete my own post. So the question is, what are you guys seeing? Do you see the "Delete this post"? What about when you click on EDIT POST and then click the DELETE POST check box? Does your post delete then? Feel free to post screen shots if you need to show what you're seeing. I'd like to get this solved once and for all.
