There is a bit of an oddity going on with deleted threads... If someone deletes his/her reply, it gets hidden - which is very good... (and please keep it that way). If the topic starter deletes the initial post, the text body gets replaced with "deleted by...", but the answers will stay, and the whole lot pops up as "new" after an "mark all read". But... it is obviously still possible to reply to the deleted thread, so - in theory - it will never die... is that intended? I would suggest to hide deleted threads completely (avoiding the problem), but if you do want to show them with the "deleted by" message, then I'd say they should auto-lock.

A deleted THREAD is just that - gone, dead and burried. But a thread with a deleted post in it ANYWHERE (even as the starting Post) becomes active immediatly - the ebot seems to consider "DELETE" as a new post.

Well... I just found a deleted thread half an hour ago, where the last reply was JKeller regretting that the thread was deleted...! It actually was, it was marked "(deleted)" in the overview, and the initial text was removed. Then I replied "test" to the deleted thread, and it added "test"!!! Then I deleted my "test", and it vanished again. Feel free to visit it and add some stuff of your own... :-)

Heh. Zombie Thread Party in the forae! :-)

Threads can't be deleted. Only individual posts. The only time you can't reply to a thread is when it has been locked.

Yeah - my only question has been if it is intended that someone deletes his original thread, but people are free to reply to it 200 times for the next two years... I think this is a bit odd, and not exactly what people might expect with a "delete" button. If you do intend to have it this way, fine...

Would you rather the entire thread just disappear if the original posted gets a wild hair? That doesn't seem too fair to all those who might have already replied and had something good to say.

This is how it worked for years, and still works in every other board that I know of - so it's what I somehow live with. If I read something interesting (but controversial) then I tend to save it for that reason. On the other side, most deleted threads got a long story and a couple of short answers. The way how it works now will just leave a couple of short answers out of context, something like this: 1) "(deleted by AAA)" 2) "What do you mean by "crashed"?" by BBB 3) "Try to put a cup of tea into it!" by CCC 4) "Why have you deleted that thread?" by MartinC That's not too useful as well... :-)

butts in hey, i like how the thread stays put even if the starting post is deleted... one thing though, i like how deleting the starting post says "message deleted" ... can we have that for replies? cos people say something in a thread, then delete it and there's no proof they had said something to incite the tone of replies... someone can change the whole tone of a thread by selective deletion. this sucks. at least if there's something there saying "message deleted" people can assume the deletor made a jack@$$ of themself instead of assuming the raving repliers are the idiots. whacha fink? should this be in the community ideas forum?

It was like that originally, and everyone complained about not wanting to see the deleted posts. Hmmm ... maybe a Profile option is in order. :)

profile options are goot. :D (waiting for the forum reply email notify checkbox default off to bubble up to the top of the wishlist) oh yeah, got nother one, (don't groan! geeze...) profile option the font sizes... i'm going blind looking at 2cm high typefaces on the forum, i'm used to 2mm.. heh. (will repost in community ideas if i remember)

Whatever you do, please make sure that there is at least some possibility to silently delete stupid replies containing typos and missing sentences... I can't live without this... :-) :-) :-) There is an universal law that rules that things like this will only be recognized after the bloody thing has been posted, no matter how much minutes you were staring at the preview before... Talking about the preview, there is another bug... you can't post a reply "from preview" unless you add a picture - both the "http://" fragment or an empty line are rejected. PS: (this post has been deleted/reposted as well due to another stupid typo... this time I'm excused because I wasn't able to post from the preview mode... :-)