by rslitman
Cutting to the chase - Am I not allowed to delete a message if a new message has been posted to the topic by someone else, even if that message doesn't Quote mine in a response? Or should I have gotten the Delete option in the situation described below?
More detailed information:
Yesterday, I posted a message that was critical of a decision made by a public transportation authority. It was in the middle of a fairly active topic. Within an hour or two, I decided to delete it. One new message had appeared in this topic. It did not pertain to my message but to other things in general that were brought up earlier in the topic. It appeared to be posted as a "Post Reply", not as a "Quote", so the software no doubt was not able to determine that it did not refer to this topic.
I did not get an option to delete my message, only to edit it. So what I did was to remove the text of my earlier response and just put in a placeholder line to note that I was deleting what I said earlier but couldn't physically delete it.
More detailed information:
Yesterday, I posted a message that was critical of a decision made by a public transportation authority. It was in the middle of a fairly active topic. Within an hour or two, I decided to delete it. One new message had appeared in this topic. It did not pertain to my message but to other things in general that were brought up earlier in the topic. It appeared to be posted as a "Post Reply", not as a "Quote", so the software no doubt was not able to determine that it did not refer to this topic.
I did not get an option to delete my message, only to edit it. So what I did was to remove the text of my earlier response and just put in a placeholder line to note that I was deleting what I said earlier but couldn't physically delete it.
Soon you will need to be in your 60s in order to remember the 60s.