What happened to the "Delete" button?

[newbury]

Slightly different question. How can you cancel a post you have started but not yet posted?

I just leave the page, don't know where the bits go.

 

[Xfaxman]

Slightly different question. How can you cancel a post you have started but not yet posted?

Here is a started post on my computer, highlighted everything:

Hit delete, lt goes back to normal:

 

[Jstpssng]

Slightly different question. How can you cancel a post you have started but not yet posted?

Click on the little floppy icon to the right Left of "preview": this should bring up the option of saving or deleting the post. I suspect that you will know what to do from there.

 

[Xfaxman]

Still NO FIX for missing delete button?

What device are you using that does not show the Delete icon?

I am on a HP Chromebase computer and it shows Delete on all of my previous posts, except the first post of a thread I started:

 

[ptsg]

Windows and Chrome here. At one point in the early stages of this new forum software, I remember seeing the button and used at least once.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Slightly different question. How can you cancel a post you have started but not yet posted?

Thanks Newbury, Xfaxman, Jstpssng. I tried all with varied success. What seems to work completely today is More Options toggle BB code ( [] ). It seems to allow highliting everything - even a quoted post. So then delete gets it all.

 

[Jstpssng]

What device are you using that does not show the Delete icon?

I am on a HP Chromebase computer and it shows Delete on all of my previous posts:
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Windows Edge here.
Edit; I just tried it in Foxfire, yet still no delete button. I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.

 

[ruffdog]

Windows chrome here....no delete button.

 

[Xfaxman]

I was on Chrome and a Windows computer when this thread started and have always had a delete button.

I remember in the previous versions the Style selected would make some differences:

If you click the down arrow at the right, it shows 3 choices.

But got this when I tried to change, so maybe there is only one Style now:

 

[Muhammad]

Time limit on deletion.

 

[IndyJay]

How many minutes? Sort of eliminates the ability for self-moderation.

 

[MossRoad]

Sometimes I post something, then a little voice tells me to re-read it, and I find a bunch of typos, misspellings, and other fun things. I'll fix it then, but after it's been up for a day or so, I just let it go and will post a different response with the corrections.

 

[Xfaxman]

Time limit on deletion.

Evidently the time limit on the Delete button only applies to the first post of a thread.

 

[ruffdog]

.....and some people don't even get a delete button...ever.

 

[Jstpssng]

Time limit on deletion.

Let's test that theory.

 

[Jstpssng]

Let's test that theory.

It's been "a moment"... still no delete button.

 

[caver]

I miss the little mark off to the side that shows you had participated in a thread.

 

[MossRoad]

I miss the little mark off to the side that shows you had participated in a thread.

Now it's an eyeball on the right.

 

[Muhammad]

Okay so we can either do edit and delete function with a time limit, or edit function with no time limit, but no delete. Thoughts?

 

[MossRoad]

Edit and delete functions with time limit.

It doesn't make sense to be able to go back in time endlessly and edit or delete posts. If something is that egregious that it should be deleted, it could be reported and removed upon request. If it's something minor with some mild flaws, or misinformation, a follow up post in a thread should take care of the correction.