EDIT and DELETE post in the steam forums?

[TATATAT]

hi, is it possible to edit and delete posts in the steam forums? i cant seem to find the button for it.

[Nx Machina]

Top right of your post (mouseover). Three selections will appear BUT you can only delete your own posts or edit it.

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

So long as they dont exceed 4 posts and they are your comments only. We cant delete others comments only our own

[Wai]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Top right of your post (mouseover). Three selections will appear BUT you can only delete your own posts or edit it.

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

Are you sure? It is possible to delete portions of quoted text, this is editing, and it can alter meaning.

PLEASE NOTE.

The Following quote has been edited for demonstration purposes and does not reflect what the author intended

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Top right of your post (mouseover). Three selections will appear BUT you can only delete your own posts or edit it.

Note: you can change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

This has happened to me recently. Something which needs to be addressed, I think.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Wai:

Are you sure? It is possible to delete portions of quoted text, this is editing, and it can alter meaning.

PLEASE NOTE.

The Following quote has been edited for demonstration purposes and does not reflect what the author intended


This has happened to me recently. Something which needs to be addressed, I think.

If you quote me and only want a specific section you can.

For example:

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

But not as you demonstrated with:

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Note: you can change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

Because that is not what i posted.

[Wai]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Originally posted by Wai:

Are you sure? It is possible to delete portions of quoted text, this is editing, and it can alter meaning.

PLEASE NOTE.

The Following quote has been edited for demonstration purposes and does not reflect what the author intended


This has happened to me recently. Something which needs to be addressed, I think.

If you quote me and only want a specific section you can.

For example:

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

But not as you demonstrated with:

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Note: you can change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

Because that is not what i posted.

Exactly so.

Which is a big problem. We all know what is right and what is wrong, but, some simply do not care if it suits their purpose.

I do not know how complicated it would be to prevent this happening.

The most noxious form of this type of editing is to quote a phrase out of context. The quote itself is accurate, but, divorced from the context a seemingly accurate quote's meaning can be distorted or even reversed.

[TATATAT]

uhhh. what the hell are you talking about, i dont care about quotes. how do i edit a POST, not a QUOTE. i would delete this question if i could...

[Aachen]

Originally posted by TATATAT:

uhhh. what the hell are you talking about, i dont care about quotes. how do i edit a POST, not a QUOTE. i would delete this question if i could...

Upper right corner of any editable post is a drop-down menu. That menu has options to edit or delete.

[Seretti]

Originally posted by TATATAT:

uhhh. what the hell are you talking about, i dont care about quotes. how do i edit a POST, not a QUOTE. i would delete this question if i could...

The first reply tells you how...

[TATATAT]

Originally posted by Seretti:

Originally posted by TATATAT:

uhhh. what the hell are you talking about, i dont care about quotes. how do i edit a POST, not a QUOTE. i would delete this question if i could...

The first reply tells you how...

ok i see now where to edit the post thanks, but not delete. i only ever found saw the menu for Post Comments and they dont see, the option for the original post. thanks for solving my brain fart.

[TATATAT]

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Top right of your post (mouseover). Three selections will appear BUT you can only delete your own posts or edit it.

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

https://imgur.com/a/rhlOXD6
https://imgur.com/a/U0j3SaF

[Psymon²]

Originally posted by TATATAT:

Originally posted by Nx Machina:

Top right of your post (mouseover). Three selections will appear BUT you can only delete your own posts or edit it.

Note: you can quote other user posts and edit but not change the wording to reflect a different opinion.

https://imgur.com/a/rhlOXD6
https://imgur.com/a/U0j3SaF

deleting the post that starts the thread, is only possible before a certain number of replies have been made.
after that threshold is crossed, you cannot delete the first post.
replies within the thread can be deleted at any time.

try this out by making a new thread, maybe in offtopic, or new to steam

hope that helps.

[AngryWombat]

Howdy, I just looked this question up myself as I couldn't see any edit/delete function.

For anyone who comes here wondering as well, make sure to refresh the page if you just posted a discussion. The auto review bot holds your post hostage for a few seconds so the buttons aren't there yet.

Thought it was kinda funny, just found this out the hard way after a ton of bad formatting.

[Connie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.