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  • George.
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2004
    • 17955

    The "delete" function...

    ... and the "delete thread" function are back, as my little experiment just discovered.

    Keith, don't you dare!
  • ndaniels
    Just this guy...
    • Jun 2005
    • 4690

    #2
    Odd. I just tried deleting one that I just started, as an experiment, and it didn't work at all. I got the "only administrators" message...
    Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
    ... Roy Blount, Jr.

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    • Tom Fetter
      Recalcitrant Heretic
      • Jun 2003
      • 50976

      #3
      Well, I can delete one of my own posts. And delete a 1-post thread, by deleting the only post in it. But the thread close and thread delete functions don't seem to be available to us lesser mortals.

      t.
      If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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      • Keith Wilson
        Trying to be reasonable
        • Oct 1999
        • 64114

        #4
        No, I won't. There's WAY too much posted now; it would be grossly unfair. I tried to close it when things got nasty, but it didn't work, and now I'm glad it didn't (I think).

        [ 03-10-2006, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Keith Wilson ]
        "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,
        for nature cannot be fooled."

        Richard Feynman

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        • Joe (SoCal)
          Banned
          • Feb 2002
          • 46431

          #5
          Originally posted by George.:
          Keith, don't you dare!
          I double dog dare you. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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          • ndaniels
            Just this guy...
            • Jun 2005
            • 4690

            #6
            Ah. So it works if there is only the original post in the thread? That is a disappointment, although "close" would actually be better - leave the historical record but shut the thread to new posts.
            Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
            ... Roy Blount, Jr.

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            • Tom Fetter
              Recalcitrant Heretic
              • Jun 2003
              • 50976

              #7
              Actually, I've just found that the thread starter CAN delete a whole thread, by deleting their first post.

              I tested that on the poetry thread that I started earlier today ... as Popeye and I had only 3 posts on it between us, it seemed a reasonable loss.

              That said ... here's my Yeats poem again



              Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

              I met the Bishop on the road
              And much said he and I.
              'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
              Those veins must soon be dry;
              Live in a heavenly mansion,
              Not in some foul sty.'

              'Fair and foul are near of kin,
              And fair needs foul,' I cried.
              'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
              Nor grave nor bed denied,
              Learned in bodily lowliness
              And in the heart's pride.

              'A woman can be proud and stiff
              When on love intent;
              But Love has pitched his mansion in
              The place of excrement;
              For nothing can be sole or whole
              That has not been rent.'
              If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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              • ndaniels
                Just this guy...
                • Jun 2005
                • 4690

                #8
                TomF, you are the local hero.
                edited to add: a bonus poem for you, by Martin Estrada:

                "The Community College Revises Its Curriculum In Response To Changing Demographics"

                SPA 100 Conversational Spanish
                2 credits

                The course
                is especially concerned
                with giving police
                the ability
                to express themselves
                tersely
                in matters of interest
                to them

                [ 03-10-2006, 03:49 PM: Message edited by: Uncle Duke ]
                Sometimes you've gotta leave the kibble out where the slow dogs can get some....
                ... Roy Blount, Jr.

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                • uncas
                  Ancient Mariner
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 11649

                  #9
                  TomF local!!!!!!?????
                  He's in an entirely different country...

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                  • Tom Fetter
                    Recalcitrant Heretic
                    • Jun 2003
                    • 50976

                    #10
                    Originally posted by uncas:
                    TomF local!!!!!!?????
                    He's in an entirely different country...
                    Not to mention headspace ...

                    But Jamie, in cyberspace everything's local.
                    If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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                    • Chancie23
                      Too Young to be a Senior
                      • Sep 2004
                      • 13902

                      #11
                      You mean there was a way to delete the Sugarbreeches thread?
                      Pet photography, the degree you get when you fail aromatherapy - Duck D.

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                      • uncas
                        Ancient Mariner
                        • Sep 2004
                        • 11649

                        #12
                        TomF
                        You have a point. Posting here is a lot faster than sending an e-mail.

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                        • George.
                          Senior Member
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 17955

                          #13
                          Only for the Committee.

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                          • uncas
                            Ancient Mariner
                            • Sep 2004
                            • 11649

                            #14
                            Al Gore told me it worked!

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                            • PatCox
                              Senior Member
                              • Mar 2002
                              • 5456

                              #15
                              Is that found poetry, Uncle Duke? My favorite place to look for found poetry is in the badly translated warnings and instructions on products made in japan, korea, and china. There's a name for that fractured english, but I can't remember it.

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