I posted this on the “Mods? Mods?” thread. onegoal and Shticky Guy‘s posts were copied from the same thread:
onegoal
Do you think it would be possible to make it so a user can remove any of his posts at any time regardless of how long it’s been since it was posted.
Shticky Guy
…Onegoal thats an interesting idea but think how weird threads would look with posts missing then subsequent replies to those posts would not make sense. Instead, be aware that once you send a post you have no further control over it (after the edit period elapses) so – mussar haskel – consider what you write carefully before sending it.
Shticky, you are right that threads will look funny, however, MANY threads are already hard to read because Mods deleted posts. I think there should be an [edited] tag to threads that had posts removed so that people will understand why the thread looks so weird.
Also, if onegoal’s idea would be set in place, when one removes his/her post, instead of deleting the entire post it should be replaced by Post Deleted by <User’s Name>. The same should apply when a mod removes a post (Post Deleted by <Mod __>). It should show that the user posted something and it was removed. This way people can see why it doesn’t make sense.
I do like onegoal’s idea!