At least two of you now have noticed that something minor has changed around here recently, so let's start with the "why."
A couple of years ago we had a member on the forum who had difficulties in getting along with others and as he left the forum in a huff he spent a lot of time to hunt down and delete each of his posts. We are a smaller closer family than big ol' ADV so after somebody has been a member for a couple of years, mass deletions create havoc throughout the forum. Holes are created in numerous threads and conversations where pages of posts may be referring back to one which is no longer there. More recently, we've tried to work with two additional members only to find the next time we logged on that those two guys had done the same. While we don't understand this spoiler (turd in the punch bowl) logic, as a result of a discussion between Venture and us moderators, the machinery in the background of the forum has been tweaked to prevent this from now on.
As a result, members will find that the ability to edit &/or delete their posts now expires after a day or so.
For 99.9% this will have pretty much no impact on anything at all because we write a post, go back and make any edits within a day, the discussion moves on, and we never need to further edit or delete the post. The biggest exceptions are the "For Sale" threads and we don't have too many of them. Just add a post saying "SOLD" and let the thread slide to the back pages of oblivion with time.
If you want to state something beyond what you wrote in a post that gets locked, just add a new post to the thread and refer to your previous one. If you wake up with a hangover after a long weekend and really think your witty comments should be nuked after the timer locks things, feel free to click on the "Report" button at the lower left corner and ask for it. We'll be happy to do any edits or deletions for you.
Bob / CW
A couple of years ago we had a member on the forum who had difficulties in getting along with others and as he left the forum in a huff he spent a lot of time to hunt down and delete each of his posts. We are a smaller closer family than big ol' ADV so after somebody has been a member for a couple of years, mass deletions create havoc throughout the forum. Holes are created in numerous threads and conversations where pages of posts may be referring back to one which is no longer there. More recently, we've tried to work with two additional members only to find the next time we logged on that those two guys had done the same. While we don't understand this spoiler (turd in the punch bowl) logic, as a result of a discussion between Venture and us moderators, the machinery in the background of the forum has been tweaked to prevent this from now on.
As a result, members will find that the ability to edit &/or delete their posts now expires after a day or so.
For 99.9% this will have pretty much no impact on anything at all because we write a post, go back and make any edits within a day, the discussion moves on, and we never need to further edit or delete the post. The biggest exceptions are the "For Sale" threads and we don't have too many of them. Just add a post saying "SOLD" and let the thread slide to the back pages of oblivion with time.
If you want to state something beyond what you wrote in a post that gets locked, just add a new post to the thread and refer to your previous one. If you wake up with a hangover after a long weekend and really think your witty comments should be nuked after the timer locks things, feel free to click on the "Report" button at the lower left corner and ask for it. We'll be happy to do any edits or deletions for you.
Bob / CW