Can't find the original thread, but can't believe this latest action in patch.com:

The resident told police that Daniel J. Truesdale, 27, and James B. Truesdale, 62, both of the 1000 block of Madsen in Wheaton, had come onto his property and tried to cut one of his trees down.

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Police discovered a tree stump and a 20-foot-long tree and said the men wanted the wood for a project they were working on.


Tree thieves

What original thread are you referring to?

Yeah, I couldn't figure that story out. But it seems like a good one.

GESM2, I'm referring to the thread I thought Clam or someone had started of crimes committed by GE peeps. It was going good until glellyn began posting before and after photos of meth/heroin using prostitutes and now I can't find the thread. Figured Ted or the originator must have removed it due to the abuse.

Oh yeah....that was More Alleged GE Criminals, I believe. It appears that it's locked and hadn't been posted in since June....but that doesn't sound right. Huh. Oh well.

Yes, I find it a bit odd that people from Wheaton would randomly pick a GE house that they've had no previous connection whatsoever to, to try and chop down some wood they needed....

That myth that the originator can remove threads is simply that. Once someone replies to your beginning post, the delete post button goes bye-bye. You can delete anything after that, just not the original post.

Mr. Ted deleted the thread upon my request. Though I think he would have done it himself.

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That myth that the originator can remove threads is simply that.

Really? As Admin the site works differently for me than for regular GEBBers so I can't be sure — but I know that, whenever I delete the first post, the entire thread vanishes.

I just re-read the instructions, and they say that that's the way it's supposed to work for everybody... if the original poster deletes hizzerher post that started the thread, the entire thread goes away. A lot of threads have vanished that I did not delete, so I figure it's working for some of you.

For editing or deleting you have to be signed in using the same account (username) that was used to create the original post; cookies and javascrpting have to be turned on; and the thread has to be active... closed threads can't be edited or deleted unless I re-open them. (Unused threads close automatically after a certain length f time... 90 days or six months or something like that.. I forget.)

—Ted E.

Last thread I started a couple of days back . . . just went to look. I can edit, but there is no delete button.

Clam, that's because you are a Junior Member of the GEBB. Anyone with 10000 - 13400 posts is a Junior Member. Once you get past that next milestone, you'll be able to delete again.

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...there is no delete button.

Correct. You have to click the little Edit icon under the message first, which will take you to the text entry / edit box.

Underneath the text box — just to the left of the “Post Now” button — there should be a “Delete Message...?” text hotlink (not a “button.”)

Keywords in the above paragraph: “should be.” —Ted E.

6.5 years and 13,000+ entries . . . I can assure you that I know how to delete a message. That said, as a mere user of the board, once a thread starts being utilized, the starter cannot delete it. Sorry. Once I start a thread and it is added to . . . it cannot be deleted. The delete post button is not there on the initiating post. Never has been, probably never will be.

Hmmm... there is an off/on toggle for “Allow users to edit/delete their own posts.“ It was set to ”allow,“ but I flipped it off and back on just to see if I could slap some sense into it.

The instructions don't say anything about the first post being treated any differently than the rest (other than the ”delete it, delete everything” feature).

Try again...? —Ted E.

Been this way for years.

Can anyone who started a thread go back and look at your original post. Look to see if you have the option to delete the inaugural thread after others have replied. Best guess . . . no.

I get an "edit or delete message" button. But no "delete thread" button.

Interesting. The "delete message" link only shows up in threads where there is only 1 post or in threads where I'm a respondent. In other words, if I started a thread and people responded, I can't delete my post, only edit it. If someone else starts a thread and I respond, I can delete my response.

DING DING DING DING DING! We have a winner.

That's what I have been saying. My performance art character known as Clamato has been going through trying to delete all of the active posts that he can in hopes of getting down to zero showing . . . other than locked posts. Hilarious that two people have asked me if I have been deleting posts. Who looks at stuff like that?

Some times I'll remember a past post about something (e.g. your open-mouth-chewing co-worker) and want to re-read it. Then I do a search and can't find it - even when I KNOW it should be there. Makes me think I'm nuts some times. Now I know why, thanks Clam. DON'T DELETE POSTS, unless under advice of counsel.

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Look to see if you have the option to delete the inaugural thread...

Again, you won't see the “Delete message...?” option until after you clivk the edit message icon that opens the text entry / edit box. —Ted E.

I am so intimate with how this BB works that one might consider it a problem. I know that my wife does . . . and I am starting to see her point.

When you start a thread and someone replies to the inaugural post of that thread, the topic starter cannot delete the thread nor the original post . . . they can only edit it. The "delete message" button is not there.

If you will, you hit the little pencil eraser icon, you are brought to the message, on all other posts there is a "Delete Message...?" link. It does not exist in initiating posts. Just a lonely box that says "Post Now."

Huh. I think it used to work as advertised... every so often the BB vendor updates the software to “improve” the thing. In any case, it has a mind of its own.

I miss raw HTML. And filmstrips. And overheads. And mimeograph paper... —Ted E.