How do I delete my own threads or posts?
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Casey Bennett said:You can edit posts for a short window after they go up. That’s how it works here and on other sites too. If you could edit stuff days or weeks later once the whole thread has moved on, it would just cause total chaos and people would abuse the edit button. Plus, nobody actually goes back to read old posts once a discussion gets rolling anyway.
If you mess up a quote (or a company name, like you put it), just make a new post. You can always quote your own old mistake, say you screwed up, and drop the right info. That way, everyone following the thread sees a fresh post with the updated info immediately.
There. Question answered. Respectfully.
Thanks for the reply, but I still think things should change, even if I haven't personally run into this issue yet—hopefully I won't. Look at Facebook; they aren't going anywhere, and you can basically delete anything you want, and the comments just vanish without a trace. I know everything moves slow over here and needs owner approval and whatever. Now I'm wondering, if we just delete our accounts, do all our posts disappear too? Probably not, right? Reddit owns everything we've ever written; they have absolute ownership. But hey, thanks again for the answer.