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How do I remove a redundant post?

daveking66 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:12:28 +0000

I have an old ad in the wanted section that is now redundant and can be removed. Any ideas how to do this? There doesn't to be an option for cancelling a post?

How do I remove a redundant post?

SteamyTea — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:56:20 +0000

Make it a private message to yourself

How do I remove a redundant post?

djh — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:10:21 +0000

Or just edit it and replace the text with 'deleted' or somesuch

How do I remove a redundant post?

daveking66 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:03:55 +0000

SteamyTea,
sorry to be a dimbo, but can you let me know how I go about turning my post into a private message to myself?

thanks

How do I remove a redundant post?

SteamyTea — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:16:46 +0000

Go to your very first post, edit it, fill your name into the whisper box and save changes (I think), never tried doing it.

Just seen if I can do it on one of mine, seems you cant

How do I remove a redundant post?

daveking66 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:33:01 +0000

I just tried djh's suggestion and that didn't work either. Looks like my tiles wanted ad is now on the forum forever!

How do I remove a redundant post?

fostertom — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:25:58 +0000

No. just edit the text to a ' . ' or maybe a 'ha-ha'!

How do I remove a redundant post?

daveking66 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:25:32 +0000

That seems to have worked now - ta-dah! Still think it's a bit rubbish you can't simply remove the whole ad though

How do I remove a redundant post?

mike7 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:16:20 +0000

Posted By: SteamyTeaGo to your very first post, edit it, fill your name into the whisper box and save changes (I think), never tried doing it.

Just seen if I can do it on one of mine, seems you cant

It did work for me - seems you have to make a change of some sort (like adding a full stop) before it will accept....Yep - I just removed this and replaced it adding a dot or two each time. I might just set to work now removing some of my more foolish posts...

How do I remove a redundant post?

Ed Davies — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:34:30 +0000

I seem to remember you can't do it to the first post of a thread - maybe if there's been another post added or something.

How do I remove a redundant post?

Gotanewlife — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:55:42 +0000

Posted By: Ed DaviesI seem to remember you can't do it to the first post of a thread

Correct! in my experience.

How do I remove a redundant post?

SteamyTea — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:52:12 +0000

How do I remove a redundant post?

SteamyTea — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 22:53:53 +0000

That post above has the word 'help' preceded by a '<'
The '<' hides the text, no idea why though. Voodoo I think.

How do I remove a redundant post?

skyewright — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:46:36 +0000

Posted By: SteamyTeaThat post above has the word 'help' preceded by a '<'
The '<' hides the text, no idea why though.

If you look at the source, your

'help' preceded by a '<'

has become

'<' then 'help' then '>' then '<' then '/' 'help' then '>'

i.e. a bit of html markup! Presumably something was trying to be "helpful"!

Voodoo I think.

Any technology sufficiently advanced...

How do I remove a redundant post?

Gotanewlife — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:05:36 +0000

Still can't remove the post though voodoo or not

How do I remove a redundant post?

fostertom — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:20:46 +0000

Anything je do, voo do better - voo do everything better than moi.

How do I remove a redundant post?

daveking66 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:56:08 +0000

Post removal gives me bad juju.

So I gave up in the end and asked the administrator to remove them for me!

thanks for everyones input anyway