How to handle member's deleted comments

[lalakingpalaban]

Good day!

I have one question that has been irking all of our members for quite some time now. I hope that you could enlighten us how to deal with this little problem.

It has been noted that there are members who frequently deletes their own comments. Now the moderators do not want to ban these guys as they think that they would be stepping on their freedom of speech. But the problem arises once their comments has been deleted, a box that says comment has been deleted appears in replacement of their previous comment.  Its taking up spaces but it doesnt contain any comment at all.

Is their any way to deal with these "COmment has been deleted" boxes without affecting the succeding comments?

Thank you and more power!

[GregChapman]

As I understand it there is no simple way around the "Deleted Post" issue.

When a post that has replies to it is deleted its "node" still needs to be retained in the Nabble record in order to maintain the structure of the forum. The situation used to be worse. The only option was to delete a post with all its replies.

Not an elegant solution, but if it is only a limited group of members who regularly offend in this way, I suppose you could, for a period, encourage your other users to include full quotes of their posts in their responses. That would leave the offenders with no point to deleting their messages - though it might make the forum look a little messy, until you had convinced your offenders that it pays to follow your forum's rules and conventions and that you expect them to consider their posts more carefully before making them.

Another option would be to subscribe via email to your forum. You would then have the original text of their post in your email. With the use of the Administrator's "Edit_all" permission you could then re-instate the post. If you are going to adopt this approach then it would be wise to add a pinned topic to your forum stating that you reserve your right, as administrators of the forum, to do this. The rules for posting in your forum would then be plain for all to see, and you can feel free take action when required.