how do i delete a post. thank you.

how do i delete a post. thank you.

Done. But it must be done quickly - try on this one.

After the ten minutes edit time has expired you cannot; you are responsible for what you publish.

 

Note that in this particular case the content in question was removed by another Moderator.

 

WW

Actually if you were fully responsible for what you publish, you’d be able to edit it at anytime. Unless you own your own website, I’m not sure whether it would be correct to say “you” are publishing your comments on PN. Isn’t PN doing that? [i don’t know what the best Internet lingo is for this, to be honest.] PN has control over your content once you make it. PN can choose to allow your comment permanency, which it does in the vast majority of cases, can edit your comment, or can delete your comment if deemed necessary or desirable. One way to view sites that don’t allow users editing privileges beyond a short time period is a little less that you’re responsible for your words and a little more that, after 10 minutes, you’re stuck with them, though I’ve seen reasonable accommodations made upon personal request. PN is responsible for its policy and users are responsible for agreeing to abide by it when posting here. This is not something that’s ALL about the user. It’s a shared dynamic and is best seen that way, IMO. Since PN sometimes takes on responsibility for editing or deleting certain content, it is de facto responsible for content it decides to leave in tact. I think that becomes a really important aspect of websites that edit and delete content. By deleting and editing certain content, they have also tacitly approved what stays, though that doesn’t have to mean they agree with it. As we’ve seen in the various legal and political battles, this practice opens websites up to all kinds of charges of unfairness and bias as well as questions of the website’s own responsibility for posted content.

Actually if you were fully responsible for what you publish, you’d be able to edit it at anytime. Unless you own your own website, I’m not sure whether it would be correct to say “you” are publishing your comments on PN.

 

Even if you could delete indefinitely, you'd still responsible (as Ollie North found out). When a post attracts comments, it doesn't make and sense for the fancy of one person to affect everyone.

 

 

Publish means "to make known" and something posted here or elsewhere is definitely "published".

Publish

I was using “publish” as it pertains to the operation of and control by a website, which is at issue in this thread. In some usages, it may have the broader meaning of “to make known,” but I do think in this case, and in most cases when the word is used, it’s being used a little more specifically.

When a post attracts comments, it doesn't make and sense for the fancy of one person to affect everyone.

I agree, which is why it can sometimes be troubling that a comment is edited. Because the editing of a comment can unintentionally change the meaning of either the words remaining or a later response to that now-edited comment or even an entire discussion subsequent to the edited or deleted comment. There are cases, therefore, where one’s unedited words have changed meaning due to the editing of another’s previous comment. The new meaning then becomes the responsibility of the editor and not the original writer, at least in part. And most readers won’t know that something integral to the conversation would have been edited, making it doubly troubling. That’s why, when we allow edits to comments, we can’t say for sure who exactly is responsible for what, especially in contentious circumstances where the editing tool has been applied.

Irrespective of the debate about the meaning of "publish" - the purpose of the phrase "you are responsible for what you publish" was to reinforce the fact that members cannot edit their comments after the editing window has expired - if you like perhaps better phrased assistance warning would be

 

"you need to be careful and take responsibility for what you publish here, because you don't have a facility to take it back".

 

As mentioned, another Moderator had already deleted the commentary in question: additionally it's important on that point to note that requesting that comments be deleted does not imply an expectation that they will be deleted.

 

In any case the OP's question has certainly been answered.

 

WW