| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by matth1j at 09:19, 20th November 2025 |     |
[how do you delete a post, or can't you?]
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by grahame at 10:05, 20th November 2025 | |
[how do you delete a post, or can't you?]
You can't - but you can edit it to say "deleted" for a considerable time after you have posted it, and the moderators / admins will tidy up in due course.
Very sadly, in the distant past we have had members go rogue and had to remove a facility from the many because of a very few - very much like the airports put you through an whole screening process just to pick up one rogue in a million. We keep an eye on policies / settings such as this one; for the sake of a very occasional slight inconvenience, I am inclined to leave things as they are. The damage done by one particular former member who wrote a destructive script (in 2013) could be repeated more easily if we turned in back on.
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:05, 20th November 2025 | |
[how do you delete a post, or can't you?]
You can't - but you can edit it to say "deleted" for a considerable time after you have posted it, and the moderators / admins will tidy up in due course.
If you ever have an urgent need for a post to be removed (for whatever reason) matth1j, just send me a PM and I'll deal with it. It won't be deleted altogether, but it will be moved out of public view immediately. CfN.
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by ChrisB at 16:09, 20th November 2025 | |
So - edit it first to say simply "deleted", then contact CfN to get it hidden.
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:19, 20th November 2025 | |
That's not what I meant, ChrisB.
I meant that, if any member wants the removal of something they posted, but which they are unable to edit for whatever reason, I can help. CfN.
| Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by grahame at 19:26, 20th November 2025 | |
... if any member wants the removal of something they posted, but which they are unable to edit for whatever reason, I can help. CfN. 
Reports requesting help made by anyone - by forum members or by members of the public are acted on quickly; the official way is by email to the address on the bottom of every page, but personal messages work well too provided that the admin you chose is around.
As an example, we had a public request to remove a post a week ago, and it was gone from public view (quarantined) within 60 minutes of the request being sent as the request triaged as being reasonable. The moderator and admin team looking further into the request and in that case confirming the action as being appropriate.
| Re: Deleting posts from the Coffee Shop forum, if appropriate Posted by bobm at 20:33, 20th November 2025 | |
The damage done by one particular former member who wrote a destructive script (in 2013) could be repeated more easily if we turned in back on.
Without re-living the whole sorry episode, it didn't work long term anyway as Graham has a very efficient back-up schedule.
