# Getting a post deleted prior to re-posting? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 13, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105 "2006-03-13T00:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/1 "2006-03-13T00:12:51Z")
I screwed up by not checking the formatting of [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7189359&postcount=143) in Cafe Society. I can’t report my own posts, so I’m wondering if I can get it deleted so I can re-post with fixed formatting. It was cut and pasted from various sources and I was more concerned with the bolding of the names and didn’t even notice all the line breaks. Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/2 "2006-03-13T00:51:36Z")
You could just post the correct post and then tell everyone to disregard the bad post. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/3 "2006-03-13T01:11:28Z")
Or report the post immediately above or below it and say “My post is above/below this one. Could you delete it so I could fix it?” ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/4 "2006-03-13T01:22:28Z")
You’re always welcome to report the post before or after yours to let us know what the coding should appear as; or, absent a post before or after (in a situation where you’re the OP and no one has yet responded), feel free to shoot us an e-mail with the proper coding. That said, take a gander again at your post. I believe I removed all of the extraneous carriage returns. If you still feel it’s screwed up, just send me an e-mail with the proper returns (or lack thereof), and I’ll be happy to fix it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/5 "2006-03-13T02:22:25Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > You’re always welcome to report the post before or after yours to let us know what the coding should appear as; or, absent a post before or after (in a situation where you’re the OP and no one has yet responded), feel free to shoot us an e-mail with the proper coding. > > That said, take a gander again at your post. I believe I removed all of the extraneous carriage returns. If you still feel it’s screwed up, just send me an e-mail with the proper returns (or lack thereof), and I’ll be happy to fix it for you. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! It looks great. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to do that. You are fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/6 "2006-03-13T03:11:18Z")
Hey, I wish everything I did on this board elicited such a response. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/7 "2006-03-13T15:17:00Z")
Regarding that post, though, is there any problem with the extent of the quoting that’s been done from those newspaper articles? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-a-post-deleted-prior-to-re-posting/348105/8 "2006-03-13T16:11:26Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > Regarding that post, though, is there any problem with the extent of the quoting that’s been done from those newspaper articles? See, this is why I don’t get the adoring responses to my actions. 😛 Yeah, actually, that’s a good point. Please see the thread for my explanation of why the text was cut back.