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Originally Posted by derangedhermit
Managing the posts has to be left to the user.
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The problem is that, if a user deletes a post, then subsequent posts in the same thread will be adversely affected - as will other threads that might quote or link to the deleted post.
The point is that, once a user submits a post, the post "belongs" to the forum as a whole. I don't necessarily mean that in the legal sense. Rather, that the post is part of a larger whole; it doesn't stand on its own.
I am aware of this issue because the owners of another forum I visit recently sold it to another company. Some of the members didn't like the new owners, and requested that their accounts were closed and their posts deleted. But both the old and new owners decided they couldn't do that - for much the same reasons as I mentioned above.
Mike