From c79c8f26c8a96ac02f42be3f231bddcf3f194db6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Jameson Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:15:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] deletion update --- docs/USER_GUIDE.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/USER_GUIDE.md b/docs/USER_GUIDE.md index 9cce3304..8e18dee2 100644 --- a/docs/USER_GUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USER_GUIDE.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ this section will be expanded later In addition to posting you can also *favorite* post also known as *liking* them and *repeat* posts (also known as *retweeting*, *boosting* and even *reprööting*). Favoriting a post increments a counter on it, notifies post author of your affection towards that post and also adds that post to your "favorited" posts list (in your own profile, "Favorites" tab). Reprööting a post does all that and also repeats this post to your followers and your profile page with a note "*user* repeated post". -Your own posts can be deleted, but this will only reliably delete the post from your own instance. Other instances will receive a deletion notice, but there's no way to force them to actually delete a post. In addition, not all instances that contain the message might even receive the deletion notice, because they might be offline or not known to have the post because they received it through a repeat. +Your own posts can be deleted, but this will only reliably delete the post from your own instance. Other instances will receive a deletion notice, but there's no way to force them to actually delete a post. In addition, not all instances that contain the message might even receive the deletion notice, because they might be offline or not known to have the post because they received it through a repeat. Lastly, deletion notice might not reach certain frontends and clients - post will be visible for them until page refresh or cache clear, they probably won't be able to interact with it apart from replying to it (which will have reply-to mark missing). If you are a moderator, you can also delete posts by other people. If those people are on your instance, it will delete the post and send out the deletion notice to other servers. If they are not on your instance, it will just remove the post from your local instance.