barneygale Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Why is this a thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denevien Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Pretty sure anyone can delete their PM convos, and it is removed from the other person's inbox. Why does it matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roastnewt Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Pretty sure anyone can delete their PM convos, and it is removed from the other person's inbox. Why does it matter? Actually, only admins were able to do that (have it be removed from the other person's inbox as well). I think this has been changed recently, though. Some conversations that were previously deleted by admins are back in my inbox again, just marked as "Deleted." The silent editing of posts is still the case, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauris Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Yep. I can't ninja edit my posts, why can admins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Ya it totally defeats the point of the feature... The one place I've seen the "silent edit" feature used was when Mrloud asked roast in the donation thread why he's asking questions about donations. Now obviously this is a silly question and I can forgive Mrloud for not thinking it through. I make silly posts with some regularity, too! But then to use an admin-only feature to remove the "edited by..." line on the post? How does attempting to maintain an illusion that you're never wrong qualify as official staff work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Pretty sure anyone can delete their PM convos, and it is removed from the other person's inbox. Why does it matter? Seems like a weird feature, that's all. When I send a letter or an email I can't then delete it. If you don't want to send a message, don't press the "send" button! What's the legitimate use-case of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuaherman Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Couldn't they also ask the Tech admins to directly modify the database so that they could potentially modify any data on the forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 lol wtf josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumbo52 Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Ya it totally defeats the point of the feature... The one place I've seen the "silent edit" feature used was when Mrloud asked roast in the donation thread why he's asking questions about donations. Now obviously this is a silly question and I can forgive Mrloud for not thinking it through. I make silly posts with some regularity, too! But then to use an admin-only feature to remove the "edited by..." line on the post? How does attempting to maintain an illusion that you're never wrong qualify as official staff work? Apparently "Show 'Edit by' line" is unchecked by default for admins, so it's pretty easy to miss. I don't view the existence of this feature as a big deal by any means, but I wouldn't miss it if it were removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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