Rob wrote: >Hi, this is why I am getting confused. I know I cannot remove a post in the middle of a thread without removing the other posts from other people with it. Someone on this list yesterday said when this has happened to them they asked "'staff" to remove just the one posters post without removing the others and were successful. > In the years since I've adminned boards, that's the first time I've heard of staff removing a post in a middle of a thread while allowing the remaining thread to stay attached to the initial posts. It probably couldn't hurt to ask staff to do this with your posts, but personally, I wouldn't do it, figuring staff have enough to do already and if they had wanted us to do that they would have told us so. (Yeah, I know, we almost never hear from staff as a group.) If there is valuable content in the posts that follow the one to be removed, I would move them to the same board so that they won't be deleted, and then just process the deletions as requested in the objections. Lynne

This has probably been answered before - but if you delete a post in the middle of a threat, it deletes all the following posts - right? So if you move a post in the middle of a threat, and you move it to the same board, will all the following posts follow? Diane On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Lynne wrote: > Rob wrote: > >> Hi, this is why I am getting confused. I know I cannot remove a >> post in the middle of a thread without removing the other posts >> from other people with it. Someone on this list yesterday said >> when this has happened to them they asked "'staff" to remove just >> the one posters post without removing the others and were successful. >> > > In the years since I've adminned boards, that's the first time I've > heard of staff removing a post in a middle of a thread while allowing > the remaining thread to stay attached to the initial posts. It > probably > couldn't hurt to ask staff to do this with your posts, but > personally, I > wouldn't do it, figuring staff have enough to do already and if they > had > wanted us to do that they would have told us so. (Yeah, I know, we > almost never hear from staff as a group.) If there is valuable > content > in the posts that follow the one to be removed, I would move them to > the same board so that they won't be deleted, and then just process > the > deletions as requested in the objections. > > Lynne > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne" <rwlist.admin@verizon.net> To: <boards-admins@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [BAd] Request to delete "all" posts > Lynne wrote: > > > In the years since I've adminned boards, that's the first time I've > heard of staff removing a post in a middle of a thread while allowing > the remaining thread to stay attached to the initial posts. > Could that explain the 'empty messages' that are sometimes in the middle of a thread ? The post is still there but the message text is deleted Fiona > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message