General Chat

Yes Joonie there is nothing worse than picking up an old informative thread where someone has deleted their posts, so it no longer makes sense.

People have returned to their old threads a year or so later to continue to find half of it has gone and just a load of 'thank you's' from the original poster.

The only time I delete is if I have posted the same info as someone else...so it is not needed

Joonie .........


there might be one other reason why you are picking up old threads with no replies showing.


Before 2007, Find Ancestors was not a Board on which one could reply.

A request was posted, and all replies then had to be done by pm (private message).

I did loads of help that way between 2004 and 2007 ................ heaven alone knows how many pms each requester would receive for each question! :-D

and probably all helpers gave more or less the same information

Thank you Sylvia, but I didn't mean no replies, I meant replies where someone says 'thank you so-and-so' or 'yes that is them' but there is no post to which they can be replying! An example is this one I have just posted in

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/882974

(which is from 2005 so it must have been earlier than that that it was not possible to reply maybe?)

Star whose thread it is says 'According to info Crista found on them in 1891 census' but there is no 1891 census or message from Crista in the thread :-S Or maybe in that case Star was referring to something else, but I have noticed the same thing in other threads, one was a series of posts by the person who asked for help all in a row, saying 'thank you so-and-so' to different people and referring to information that just wasn't there ...

Anyway it is certainly a good thing if you used to have to reply by pm that this isn't the case anymore!

Joonie

lots of people did used to remove their postings after a certain length of time ......... which is why we always used to advise members to copy and paste information into their own computers.

Some still do remove posts.

Also, if you decide to leave GR, and do so by contacting GR and asking them to remove your tree and your membership ..................... they do tend to remove all trace of your membership on here


If you no longer wish to be a paying member of GR, you can just not pay your sub when it is due, GR drop you down to being a free member. Your tree remains, and all your posts remain.

Joonie I think you will find with that thread you have given the link to...Is Star used to be Cherry....If you change your name it will change your name in all the posts you have made....except for the one that shows on the boards...if you get my meaning

Sylvia

If someone deletes their account all the posts on the boards stay only pm's disappear (don't they?)

Edit - Just read it again...and yes there does seem to be at least one post missing

I've also just looked at that thread.

Star was the lady's board name, but she "signed" her posts as Cherry, so other posters then referred to her as Cherry.

The convention on here is that you address other posters by the Board Name they use, UNLESS they "sign" with another name. Then it is acceptable to use the "signed" name



I don't see that any posts are missing!

I didn't mean to send anyone on a goose chase :-) I just couldn't understand the reference in that thread to 'According to info Crista found on them in 1891 census' - Crista is a member of this site I believe, at least the search function (when I finally got some version of it to function) found a Crista who had written posts in the same year, and I assumed Crista must have posted the 1891 census info, but it was gone.

In any case that was just meant as a case in point, the one that really struck me (that I can't remember now because it turned out not to be a thread of interest so I didn't 'watch' it) did have a series of at least three posts in a row by the thread originator saying 'thank you' and other comments on things that simply were not there, so they had clearly been deleted by whoever had posted them, I understand now from this thread. :-D

Oh and yes, I will certainly remember to copy anything I encounter that could be useful, and replies to anything I post!!

I have just discovered something that I am sure everybody else knows but just in case ... I read this in a stickied thread by AnnCardiff on the Find Ancestors board and I checked when I clicked on 'my threads' (because I was obviously not paying attention before) and it says this:

You are looking at all threads that you have either started or contributed to. If you want to just see threads you have started, click My Threads - Started. If you want to just see only threads you have contributed to but not started, click My Threads - Contributed To.

and that is tremendously helpful really, and it's one way of sorting one's own wheat from other people's chaff. :-D

Yes it is a good idea..don't think it has been around that long.

I have 350 pages of threads and less than 2 pages started by me....so trying to find them would be difficult

that little paragraph appeared about 4 months ago ......... very quietly, without any fanfare!


I did come across another little glitch from GR today.

I got 2 emails from GR to say that there had been postings on this thread, with the notation "this is being sent to you as you have the thread marked as to be watched"


I had not marked the thread to be watched.

However, when I checked My Watched Threads .................. sure enough, this thread was there, duly ticked.


a little gremlin around methinks!

Oh this is all so very interesting and all I wanted to do was delete a thread no longer of interest to me on My Threads.

I love the way we all get involved and I must say I have never met such a nice open minded and helpful group of members.

I got my answer from genes, but many really good points have come out of this discussion. Thank you very much and off to bed now so...........

Goodnight to you all

Sappho ;-)

Joonie, I'm very intrigued to see your comments about people deleting posts and altering the context of a thread. You pick things up very quickly as I now see you have done it presumably to see if it removed from your threads? :-)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1333970

I did what jax does there - 'The only time I delete is if I have posted the same info as someone else...so it is not needed' :-) the poster posted info that answered my question when she answered the first post, giving the information I had just posted about where the family was and where the husband was born, and then another poster found the marriage I had just found and was about to add .......... so my post was not needed :-D

but you're right, it is still there in my threads :-(

Ah Joonie, but your info was very useful as it helped me find the census which I'd been struggling to find as the poster's dob given for the woman was a couple of years out.

If I posted something with no comments e.g. just a bald c&p of a record (which would be unusual for me as most here know I tend to justify, hypothesise or just plain waffle) then I may delete. Personally, I regard duplication of info posted to be verification of same.

But, although a new name to this site you're obviously well versed in other forums and no doubt have your own preferences. :-)