On Deleting and Heavily Editing Posts

Ken Anderson

Greeter
Staff member
Unlike the last version of the Seniors Only Club, we are - so far - allowing members to delete or edit their posts, but please don't get too aggressive with this. If you post something you later wish you hadn't, it's fine to delete it if you realize that early, before others have replied. However, when you introduce a topic or an opinion that faces criticism or disagreement, that's life as it is supposed to be. Forcing a redo by deletion is unnatural and annoying to others who may have invested in it. Likewise, significantly editing an opening post or reply after others have responded makes the whole thread confusing, because people see replies to things that are no longer there.

On the other hand, if, like me, you hate to see that your post has a typo, a misspelling, or that it was worded in way that others might find confusing, feel free to edit it, as long as you haven't been called out on it. I hope we never get to the point where anyone is called out for misspellings or typos, but sometimes there is humor in the resulting error, so someone might jokingly point it out, in good fun not maliciousness.

All I'm asking is that you use discretion in deleting or heavily editing your contributions to the forum. We're just people talking about stuff, and that doesn't require perfection, and if no one ever disagreed with anyone else, we'd have nothing to talk about.
 
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