forum Delete Our Own Forum Posts and Dark Mode Requests

[Matthew White]

Is there a way to delete our own posts in the forum? If not, can we please have a way to do so? I know we can edit our post title to show the content is deleted but I think being able to delete an entire post would be much better so as to free up the forum of invalid posts just saying 'Deleted' if we'd rather delete the post entirely. Also, a dark mode setting would be great!

Edited September 14, 2022 by Matthew White
Added Dark Mode Request

[RobertWS]

If people reply to your post and you delete it....what happens to the replies? 

The would become lost orphans.  We can't have that.

[satya]

Just edit and write delete everywhere, mods will delete it

[Matthew White]

45 minutes ago, RobertWS said:

If people reply to your post and you delete it....what happens to the replies? 

The would become lost orphans.  We can't have that.

Just like a Facebook post, the replies would also go when you delete the post.

[Matthew White]

21 minutes ago, satyabrata satapathy said:

Just edit and write delete everywhere, mods will delete it

Tried that a year ago and they're still there.

[Matthew White]

11 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

Another solution for dark mode, if you use Chrome or Edge is this: 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-dark-mode/nlgphodeccebbcnkgmokeegopgpnjfkc/

It's sort of hacky but it works. 

I had added the 'Super Dark Mode' extension in the last couple of days as it happens but removed it today as I noticed Chrome was showing some processor use in task manager all the time when this extension was switched on and never dropped to 0% as it does most of the time usually when there's no activity in Chrome so was worried this extension was doing something iffy. Probably just me being paranoid though lol.

[sjoens]

For Chrome I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijelimhndkbmpgbldicpogfkceaj?hl=en

It's not always useful and will invert some images but user can turn it on/off at will from the tool bar.

[RobertWS]

13 hours ago, Matthew White said:

Just like a Facebook post, the replies would also go when you delete the post.

I would be PO'd if my intelligent and insightful and often humorous replies got deleted by some numbskull.

[Matthew White]

10 hours ago, RobertWS said:

I would be PO'd if my intelligent and insightful and often humorous replies got deleted

I can understand that some might, but say if something changed causing the post and replies to become completely irrelevant, I think it would make sense to delete the post to free up the forum of that irrelevant and possibly confusing information for both current and future users rather than leaving it there, I for one have definitely searched the web and forums for an answer and been left confused and/or frustrated by finding a bunch of information that is outdated and no longer applicable.