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Old 08-24-2014, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by TCGirl View Post
Hello, I am wondering about some posts on TOTV. Sometimes I see a post that has this on it: "..." Or /// or something similar. Then other times I read a post (most recently on the Poetry thread) and the later find the poster has gone back and erased it, leaving a line or two of periods.

I was wondering if there is a specific reason for either one of these. Thanks for any explanation.
Hi TCGirl and welcome to the Forum. Good question.

There was a Delete feature on TOTV for a while, and it allowed a poster to delete an entire post and make it disappear.
And then the Delete feature went away, not sure why it was eliminated.
As previous posters have said, now a poster can go back and pull up a previous post, and delete the body of the post by using a symbol of some sort, but the post remains.
I think it's probably used when posters have changed their mind, or perhaps regretted a comment they made.
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