Delete a Comment

[mercer]

stupid question... how do you delete a comment? I tried to embed a video and for some reason it isn't working. So I tried reposting it, and it still isn't working... So then I tried deleting the whole thing but I don't see how to do it. I attempted to just edit the comment and leaving it blank but a window pops up that tells me I have to have content and if I want to get rid of it I should delete it (paraphrasing) but I don't see a way to delete it. 

[Cinegain]

stupid question... how do you delete a comment? I tried to embed a video and for some reason it isn't working. So I tried reposting it, and it still isn't working... So then I tried deleting the whole thing but I don't see how to do it. I attempted to just edit the comment and leaving it blank but a window pops up that tells me I have to have content and if I want to get rid of it I should delete it (paraphrasing) but I don't see a way to delete it. 

​Just edit the comment and put in a reason such as '< double - cleared comment >'. Alternatively you can just put in a '.' probably (but I'd say it makes more sense to have an explanation there).

As for the vimeo link. Don't add the '/description' from the vimeo.com/videoidhere link. Just paste the link (in this case https //vimeo com/128190201 (changed for proper display, but you get the idea)) and click away or press enter to activate it, wait a second, it automatically loads up an embed. Then just post/save. Like so:

[mercer]

Awesome, thanks!!!

[Cinegain]

Awesome, thanks!!!

​No problemo.

Usually there's no deleting on forums. On the one hand I guess it's to prevent people to take back what they've said and regret later after a shitstorm has broken out about it (someone in a perhaps weak, in the heat of the moment sorta way saying something hurtful, or hasn't really looked into to the matter and states something that is false)... or atleast when people then make their comment into a blank canvas and there aren't any quotes to indicate what has regrettably been said, people will know that probably something fishy must've been going on there (so, if it's a technical reason, better just state a reason for blanking your comment, so people won't start wondering what shocking things you might've said ). Then there's probably a technical reason... every post is an entry. A topic has x many replies to it. It's statistics. But also, system backend probably... if someone has replied to you, or linked to your post earlier, there was an ID attached. This can't just be resetted as if the entry was never there, from system logic the entry has to exist.

P.S. To keep from flood posting. Just go to edit, click on any text in the comment, then CTRL+A selects all, then DEL or BACKSPACE. Then proceed to try out something different that you were trying to post in the old comment, instead of saving a whole new one.