Hey! I’m not here to go against any staff, but new members are directed to flag their own post to get it deleted, as my role is not able to delete their own post, I’ve flagged my own posts maybe 3 or 4 times to get deleted, but now I have to get checked every time I try to post something, I think it’s giving me warnings and thinking my posts are not appropriate.
To sum this up, I’d like to know how we can delete our own posts without getting in trouble/having to be checked every time you try to post.
I have the same issue. The devrel and devenagement teams always say that same automated reply, and it ticks me off that they don’t answer my questions. I’m not against them, but at the same time, it’s their jobs to help us and answer our questions.
As Thomas said you really shouldn’t write posts that you’ll delete later on. Chances are you’re writing these posts that shouldn’t be there in the first place if your intent is just to delete them.
Maybe contacting Community Sage if it’s absolutely needed. But remember the DevForum not only is a Forum to a lot of users we also use it to looks back on posts and see if we can help find solution to our problems or others.
I believe this is for regulars too on some topics, just like on some topics you can delete your own post. I’d like to say this before anyone gets this idea again. Please don’t just delete it your self by editing it to say something like: “Post deleted” get it formally taken down or just don’t take it down at all.
when you delete your topic and it has replies you are basically deleting other people’s content without their consent
the develper forum is a resource so you shouldn’t be posting only for yourself as you won’t be the only person in the world having this one specific issue, perhaps down the line someone will end up having the same problem too
Technically all of the things I needed deleted were in the bulletin board, meaning that there was no replies, plus it was a thing that had my group’s name on it prior to a transfer of ownership, hence I wanted it delted since I revamped the group.
The bulletin board category is muted by default which means it is not visible in the front page and it won’t show up in the new/latest/top sorts. It is meant to be linked externally in group/game descriptions for communities on Roblox.
The whole posts became completely inaccurate and I had no purpose for those posts. The posts had been explaining stuff like affiliations and department information, and both of those things, the departments & affiliations were comepletely wiped out of the group
Then just unlink them from the descriptions? They don’t need to be completely deleted. You can even include [outdated] or similar to the title so people know not to use that information.
I’m not trying to sound rude but personally I and many, many other people delete things and stuff. You would think Roblox would make it so that we can delete them, and if the have a flag or issue, then they would become undeleteable.
No, I mean Roblox make it so when a post gets flagged, it the author pretty much gets all permissions to the post taken away until administrators had reviewed it.
With that thomas said is, you never know if one day you might close your communities, and have the post become more irrelevant as time goes on.
I’m still trying to see the whole reason that we can’t delete our own posts.
Is it because we could delete it if we put something bad in it? if so, then if Roblox can make this whole platform, they can for sure create something called logs
If you delete your post you are basically wiping out content that could have been useful to other people. Especially in support categories. If someone helps you out and you just delete your topic afterwards, not only have you wiped your content, but the content of the person that helped you. It is not fair to delete other people’s content. I can’t think of any legitimate reason to delete your post other than to abuse the system.
I meant like in bulletin board. The legit only purpose of that is pretty much group information or game update logs. How could either of those (possibly update logs may classify under what you say) actually relate to what you just said?
Many other people also reccomend using the self-flag reason, but that is becoming less useful since devengaement doesnt actually READ YOUR QUESTIONS, they just say "oh yeah a report ok delete it and send our “thank you for flagging this post” message. DevEnagamement also start to warn you for doing this thinking that you posted something innapropriate since they dont actually read what we put in the “Other” box.
Why do you want to delete your topic anyway? If your community is dead and therefore your bulletin board posts have no meaning then nobody will read it. It will be like it doesn’t exist anymore.
This is false. Please do not spread rumors. I ask them specific questions all the time and I get a response.
Then your inquiry was so generic that a canned response was enough.
I specifically asked devenagement questions about it, the guy I asked shrugged it off and didn’t answer me. It’s been 2 days since I asked ;-;
People have stated it and shown pictures where they self-flag the post for it to get deleted and sometimes even get their devforum profiles deleted because they dont notice that it is to delete the post, and think that the person who posted it did something innaproriate and violating ToS
Even when I have actual problems and flag things, they say this, so if this is meant to be an insult to me, it didn’t work that well.
I don’t know what you mean but the team is busy and they get lots of messages I presume.
Please provide evidence in DMs. Forum staff look at context so how is that possible.
Insults are against the rules, so of course it isn’t an insult.
I have a feeling this will go in circles. This isn’t about devengagementteam not replying to messages and whatnot, this is about the permission of deleting posts. So to break the circle let’s end it here:
Basically there is no reason to delete topics. If you have a reason to then you haven’t written your topic correctly. The edit button exists so you can modify it. “My community is dead so I want to delete it” is too niche of a scenario. Just leave the post be. If it is outdated then just remove the link to the post from the descriptions.