> > > Let's say, hypothetically, that within just such a subthread that some good ideas/opinions were expressed that you deemed worthy of preserving. However, a root post from which they came contained an objectionable sentence. Could you simply edit out the objectionable portion (replaced with some editor's note) instead of having to delete every subsequent post that follows it?
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> > No. So I'd err on the side of caution and not delete any of it.
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> I was just going through some of the older forum posts and found this....so, when you posted this message, number 13755 on December 9, 1999, you state that you can't edit a post. So, with that in mind, what /exactly/ happened with post number 5557, which was posted on August 8, 1999?

Can't and won't are different things. That particular post was a generic spam post, and at that time I did not have my post deleting script. Because deleting posts nested in subthreads was at that time very difficult, it was far more easy for me to edit it than remove it.

As a side note, I'm not sure why I gave that answer to that question. Something "objectionable" is not going to stay on this forum unless I miss it somehow. What I do to remove something objectionable may vary from case to case.