>When I worked for the UT I had seen people claim that posts or threads had been deleted. Every one of them was false. Of course, I have no idea if this was done this time, but based on previous experience, I doubt it.
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>I've been on the UT since 1998 and I don't recall ever seeing a post deleted either. However, there's a UT feature that's almost as bad...
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>Users are allowed to edit their own posts until the time when someone physically replies. Users should only be able to post follow-up comments on their posts [which is the model for other forums], not modify a post that others have read but not responded. Once someone clicks 'send', he/she should not be able to change it. It's almost like able to change an email that you've sent.
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>One forum member has taken so many liberties with this feature that it makes it difficult just to carry on a dialog. He has often posted 'ABC', I'll start typing a reply to 'ABC', and then the member changes his post to '123' [with a different meaning and spirit] before I click 'send' on mine...making my reply seem incongruous with the modified post.
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>It's also allowed the posting of ugly remarks that lived on the thread just long enough for the receiver to 'see' them.
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>Some would argue that I should paste all of the original comments - I feel that's unnecessary and perhaps makes it more confusing when someone comes along and reads the exchange. The original poster could simply claim that the reply contained a fabrication. This should be changed.
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I hope you don't mean me with the Update of posts. If you do and it's causing a problem for you, I will knock it off. I do use that feature to correct typos or insert a word that was left out. (That seems to be happening to me more often; a sign of early senility? <g>). I do not use it to make substantive changes to the post.

I'm with you about long posts that consist mainly of a long series of quotebacks. It's overkill when we already have easy to use thread navigation options. After a few messages it's hard to tell who said what, anyway.