this has been answered at great length- re:-is is possible to delete an advert?

[Minitoots]

I've recently sold a few items on the forum and have tried to delete the post, but can only seem to edit the title to say 'sold'. Am I missing something?

[ianr]

Why do you want to delete them? The Sold tag in the subject line does all that's needed to be helpful.

PS I expect this thread will be moved to the About this forum section soon.

[Minitoots]

There are already so many ads on the forum, I'd have thought it's easier for people to only browse through ones that are actually available rather than also have to look at lots of things that have already sold- I was just trying to unclog the forum....

[ianr]

Not in my opinion.

Deleting content is unhelpful to others. They might, for example, waste time a day or two after a post was published, searching for it again but unable to find it.

It's also unhelpful to the poster. It would remove information that might help a reader gain a good impression of them as a seller. It might also get them wondering what reasons anyone had for deleting details of what they had been trying to sell. Most of the ones that come to my mind involve some variety of dishonesty.

I'd leave the housekeeping to Admin, who will mainly be concerned with clogged gigabytes and will trawl from time to time. Users can't delete a whole post anyway, so just take care of the subject line. "Sold" or whatever added there tells all that's needed, in a few tenths of a second. Opening a thread to find the content gone takes a lot longer and may annoy.