Messed up and ascended like a missile

[Bubblesong]

FYI only - although you can not technically delete the post - you can edit a post... Same thing - remove what you wrote and type in "Deleted" or "Misread the post" or any assorted saying... That in essence removes the words from the post - but not the entry...

But only for a set period of time. If you need a literary “Morning After Pill” you can hit the “menu”, then “report” icons, and ask the mods to have mercy on you and either delete or modify or even add a “Mea Culpa” to the end of your post, at their discretion, based on whether they think you were just being wrong, or a total schlong.

 

[boulderjohn]

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A Friendly Reminder...

Mods will usually not delete posts that have generated discussion, unless there is a violation of the Terms of Service (ToS). In this case, if we were to start deleting posts every time someone started talking about an issue that had already been thoroughly dealt with in a thread and then regretted having done so, that would become 90% of our jobs--jobs for which we are not paid a dime.

There has been quite a rash of this recently. Something comes up in a thread, it gets discussed, and it is handled and done with. Then someone comes in and makes a heated post on the same issue, clearly without having read the thread to see that it had been taken care of. In many of those cases, the person's post repeats an idea that has already been thoroughly debunked.

This is no doubt embarrassing to the person who posted, but it could have been avoided easily. Please, folks, when you encounter something early in a thread that you feel strongly about, read through the thread before responding. You might save yourself some serious regret.

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[Roger Hobden]

A simpler solution, which many internet forums have adopted, is to permit users to edit or delete their posts at any time.

 

[MichaelMc]

A benefit of discussion is to see many sides of an issue, and to offer a chance to judge them for oneself. If a side can disappear completely later on, it makes following the discussion much harder. Also some relative permanence may encourage thoughtful responses, and not randomness.

 

[Roger Hobden]

some relative permanence may encourage thoughtful responses, and not randomness.

In theory, yes.

In pratice, I see nothing of the sort.

 

[DandyDon]

A simpler solution, which many internet forums have adopted, is to permit users to edit or delete their posts at any time.

No way. Gotta stand by your words. No time machines.

 

[Steve_C]

Please tell me this is a typo...

Poster is from Cyprus. Probably not psi. Probably bar.

 

[Steve_C]

OP was at depth. He had a mask issue. For reasons I do not understand he went to the top of the boat. Since he was focused on his mask he probably did not vent any air going up those few feet. This now made him buoyant which he did not notice since focused on mask. Up he went.

I agree that doffing and donning the mask is an important skill. But it is not clear that students know that has almost nothing to do with clearing the mask. To clear a flooded mask you face ahead or slightly up. You place one hand on the top edge of the mask. You exhale through your nose and air goes out the sides and bottom. You can now see. If necessary you readjust the skirt of your mask and repeat.

 

[Bubblesong]

Well @boulderjohn has a point that posters don’t read the whole thread, because it is too long for them, and then make it unnecessarily longer by repeating the stuff they skipped over. Any ideas how to nicely tell people not to post anything until they have read through the whole thread?

 

[MichaelMc]

You want it to be nice? Hmm.

Not nice: "@fred48473, This was covered above. RTFT "
Nice: "@fred48473, you may have missed this being explained earlier in the thread. "

The pitchforks adds a bit of lightness, maybe.