nartreb wrote:SoCal, don't use legal language when you clearly have zero familiarity with the law.

In nearly all countries, anything you write is automatically subject to copyright. You own the copyright on your writing, regardless of whether it's "published" or not. (But for the record, a public forum like SummitPost certainly qualifies as "publication" in areas of the law where "publication" does matter.)

*Which* rights you have under copyright is more variable depending on jurisdiction. In the US, an author would NOT have a right under copyright law to delete things they've written on a website owned by somebody else (but they might have a contractual right, if the website had promised them that they could, maybe even if the website had simply had a tradition of allowing it and changed its policy without warning). Some European jurisdictions recognize "moral rights" related to copyright, which allow authors additional control of their works, though my guess is they don't include a universal right of deletion like Lolli would apparently like.

PS I just edited this post: I'd written "where you live" when I really meant "jurisdiction". Where you live is a factor in jurisdiction, but far from the only one.

gabriele wrote:maybe this way some people stops writing silly things

nartreb wrote: (but they might have a contractual right, if the website had promised them that they could, maybe even if the website had simply had a tradition of allowing it and changed its policy without warning).
/// they don't include a universal right of deletion like Lolli would apparently like.

gabriele wrote:

Lolli wrote:It has happened more than once, that I have come back a few hours later, realised that my post wasn't very well written
the wording maybe too harsh, easily interpreted in an unwanted way as inflammatory or mean or something
now I wouldn't be able to delete or redo it so it says what I really wanted it to say ?

So, you can change the meaning of your posts and the ones that answered may look stupid
example :
I say "Lolli is a great climber"
Lolli answer = "True"
I change my post in "Lolli should think better before posting"
and Lolli MUST say True !!!

Lolli wrote:SoCalHiker

morally you're right, but not in practicality
you know as well as I do that some people prefer to read other member's post as the devil reads the bible (sic!)
and one can write posts until one is blue in the face and the fingers stiff without anyone caring
and it escalates
better to remove something easily misunderstandable, if one discovers it in time
but you maybe prefer flamewars?

SoCalHiker wrote:

Lolli wrote:SoCalHiker

morally you're right, but not in practicality
you know as well as I do that some people prefer to read other member's post as the devil reads the bible (sic!)
and one can write posts until one is blue in the face and the fingers stiff without anyone caring
and it escalates
better to remove something easily misunderstandable, if one discovers it in time
but you maybe prefer flamewars?

deleting/editing posts in retrospect will create flamewars because some people "accuse" you of having said something in the past which you innocently deny

I used "you" as a general term btw

gabriele wrote:if "posts" means "posts in forums" I think they shouldn't never be changed or deleted
maybe this way some people stops writing silly things

SoCalHiker wrote:

Lolli wrote:Besides, who says Summitpost owns my posts?
Off-Route is one thing, but the other forums - there might be stuff & info the member owns.
With the right to delete or not. Copyright, to put it simple.

If this goes through, I want all my posts deleted first.

What do you mean with "own your posts"? You post something which is out there in a public forum, free for everybody to see, read, ... there is no copyright for what you say here. It's not a published work.

Lolli wrote:Besides, who says Summitpost owns my posts?
Off-Route is one thing, but the other forums - there might be stuff & info the member owns.
With the right to delete or not. Copyright, to put it simple.

If this goes through, I want all my posts deleted first.

Buz Groshong wrote:

Lolli wrote:Besides, who says Summitpost owns my posts?
Off-Route is one thing, but the other forums - there might be stuff & info the member owns.
With the right to delete or not. Copyright, to put it simple.

If this goes through, I want all my posts deleted first.

Your threat is disgusting. It's childish manipulative behavior.