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Originally Posted by Kira_Naruto
... What exactly the point of it?
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There is no point to it. It is a template bug. It has actually been in the base vBulletin style/skin for a long time now, but it is quite pointless. You can't really assume anything about a thread just from the number of deleted posts so knowing how many were deleted doesn't really help you any. It isn't even useful for moderators. I just forgot to remove it in the recent re-ordering of styles, it will probably go again soon
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Originally Posted by Kira_Naruto
Why cant we have delete post ability here too?
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That has been asked before many, many times. The general answer is because we've never enabled it. Originally this was because doing so allowed users to remove threads (even if other people had posted). This isn't actually the case any more, however so the policy is, you could argue, like an archaic law that no body bothers enforcing any more. Only, the forum is software so it just keeps enforcing it until we tell it differently. So far we've not seen the need to do that. I personally think allowing you to delete your own posts would be fine, or better than the alternative approaches, but it is a matter of the staff fully debating the pros and cons, and we've not
really done that so it won't change any time soon.