Have you ever deleted a post?

[Jelena]

Have you ever deleted your post and what was the reason of such action?

[shyflower]

Yes. Right now I am moving a bunch of stuff from one blog to another, changing the focus of Older-Space to just freelance writing and business tips (Since that's where I was getting the most readers). As I move the other things, I'm deleting them. I also deleted one other post. It had no comments and I didn't like it... so I deleted it.

[ses5909]

I haven't deleted any posts yet and don't think I will. But who knows!

[goldfries]

are you referring to PUBLISHED posts?

i unpublished before, and going to delete it soon once i migrate the post to another site. :)

[BPartch]

I have taken the whole blog down and started over.

[smittenbite]

yes, it was a ppp post

[shyflower]

What is a ppp post?

[ses5909]

Pay Per Post..basically you are paid to write a review on a product or service. You don't have to favorable in your review; you just have to review it.

[Golgotha]

I have, ones that have become dated and no longer valid.

[ses5909]

I have, ones that have become dated and no longer valid.

instead of deleting them, why not recycle them and update them and in the old post put a link to the updated post?

[pbradish]

I've thought about it. When I started my blog, the post quality wasn't exactly up to snuff.

[HAWK]

I did once because it was about someone who asked me to remove it. I was really pissed about it. It was a nice post and it didn't identify him in any way, but he asked me to take it down. I wasn't actually going too, but he threatened me and it didn't seem worth the hassle in the end.

[mccormicky]

I did once because it was about someone who asked me to remove it. I was really pissed about it. It was a nice post and it didn't identify him in any way, but he asked me to take it down. I wasn't actually going to, but he threatened me and it didn't seem worth the hassle in the end.
I had a similar situation but in my case I wasn't that nice-- I had unintentionally reamed someone who was a friend of a friend I'd done some work for.What a mess.
She didn't ask me to delete the post but I said I would so that relations might be smoothed over.
I aplogised,deleted and apologised again.I thought we were good but she hasn't contacted me again. At least it was pro bono work.
Sometimes I just don't think before I write.

[chimeric]

I once deleted one post. It was the only one (and I think the last one) I`ve ever deleted. I broke my own rules and blogged about something way to private/personal and the person the post was about wasn`t very lucky about the fact that I wrote about our private things in public :-( so I took it down again (she has been completely right probably).

[HAWK]

I had a similar situation but in my case I wasn't that nice-- I had unintentionally reamed someone who was a friend of a friend I'd done some work for.What a mess.
She didn't ask me to delete the post but I said I would so that relations might be smoothed over.
I aplogised,deleted and apologised again.I thought we were good but she hasn't contacted me again. At least it was pro bono work.
Sometimes I just don't think before I write. Ouch.

[lilmissjenny]

I have deleted paid posts because I got the payment for them.

[ses5909]

I have deleted paid posts because I got the payment for them.

What's the rule on this? Are you allowed to delete them if you've been paid?