Deleted your other post.
Thanks I was trying to delete, but couldn't figure how the #@!! to do so.
I don't know, with moderator super powers I may have different or more options. 
Maybe if you edit a post you may be able to delete it??
If you clear everything it gives an error (need to have some text). There is no delete button/selection anywhere (unless hidden away).
This is the typical moderator view
I will try and log in with my alter ego account for a mere mortal view. 
So no delete button in mere mortal screen, just Quote, Reply and Report.
ok now I have Edit, Quote and Reply
I do more deleting than moving. If a post just has "." or "never mind" or "forget it" or some such, I just delete it.
the mere mortals are not allowed to delete posts.
IIRC the problem was that either we then could delete all posts, not only posts from ourselves, or that with the deleting posts you could just remove any usefull information.
there have been discussions about it when this forum was set-up, as we wanted to be able to delete replies made( so not the initial post, but that was not possible back then.
OK, Say I referenced a post like this: #6 then #6 gets deleted (by a ruthless moderator perhaps) are my references invalidated?
<edit> Lets perform the test - This #9 post is #9. I'll post another after this post, for which I'll request deletion. It became #10 or as a URL #10.
The following post is clawson's #11
I suspect deleting a "mid-thread" post will mess up the # references but should preserve any URLs
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the mere mortals are not allowed to delete posts.
So I need to create post #12 and then if post@ > 11, delete post #10.
OK.
OK - To summarize the test results:
Obviously they're not completely purged; just hidden.
well, a URL reference is of the form www.avrfreaks.net/comment/2916986#comment-2916986 - where, I guess, the #comment-x is the reference to the specific post.
If that post no longer exists, I guess it just goes to the top of the thread ... ?
EDIT
As a test, I tried hacking the #comment-x to an invalid value:
https://www.avrfreaks.net/comment/2916986#comment-99
and that does, indeed, go to the top of the thread
That #comment-99 suffix is what's called an anchor. It enables the browser to scroll-into-view a particular place on the page.
The earlier part of the URL is what controls the post lookup. The server finds the URL matches a certain pattern then parses the URL for the comment number. This comment is looked up in a database, from there it can find details of the thread to which it belongs and thereby can lookup all other comments associated with that thread and build the page.
For instance in this URL: The 2917001 is your #14 and 2916732 is valusoft's #11
https://www.avrfreaks.net/comment/2917001#comment-2916861
So the post lookup is done on your 2917001 to find this thread and the browser scrolls valusoft's #11 into view.
We are indeed Ruthless, in fact I don't know of a lady moderator here of any name.
I think the change to the deletion by user came about when some freak with his nose out of joint started to delete threads.
meslomp wrote:Curious. That's a change from "old freaks" then. Back in the old freaks site everyone could delete posts but only for as long as their post was the LAST post in a thread As soon as someone posted anything after it then the previous posted were "locked" and could only be deleted with moderator powers.the mere mortals are not allowed to delete posts.
I will check.... answer should be in the next post
It does not seem to work that way:
I do not have the option to delete the post, even though it was the latest in the thread.
I do recall a discussion about this, but that was in the beginning of the new freaks and there was something with the rights that were not as fine graded here as on the old forum.
I do recall a discussion about this,
(BTW it was only the other day after I posted something on Twitter and realised an error that I discovered there is no way to edit tweets - on Twitter all you can do is copy the entire tweet, delte the whole thing then paste/edit/post an update. So I guess we should count ourselves lucky that this restriction does not exists here?)
A "normal" user can edit their post - so could just remove the content, and leave a comment.
Example: https://www.avrfreaks.net/commen...
EDIT
and see #7
EDIT 2
in case that reference does get deleted:
Yes Andy... and whenever I see those I usually just delete them if doing so does not destroy the flow/context. No point in post hoarding...
hence reference to #7 !
