Deleting a blog entry properly
 

Hi folks!

Is there a way to delete a blog entry completely? When I click delete, it still stays visible for me, it is just marked with "deleted". I suppose other visitors can't see it any more, but it still annoys me. Is there a way to trash an own blog entry completely?

I also searched this forum but I couldn't find an answer...

If you pm me, I can take a look and possibly delete them for you, but no, usually members are only allowed to "soft delete" which means it is still visible to you and the moderators, but nobody else.

Ok, thank you for the answer!
No worries, that won't be necessary at the moment. I'll try to "recycle" it when I make a new blog entry. (You can change the title, text, category and anything else via edit. So if I have prepared a completely new blog entry, I just overwrite the content there and un-delete it ;) ).

But since this is possible I wonder why users are not allowed to delete their own blog entries. This doesn't make sense to me.

If you write (for example) that you're underage in a blog entry and you suddenly find out that underage users are not allowed on getDare then it would be really easy to just erase the evidence. So only the person who (soft) deleted the content and the moderators are able to still view the blog entry. If you want a moderator to 'permanently' delete it for you, it really is still there but just not visible to you anymore or anyone else besides moderators.

Ok thanks for clarification. But then can you also see the edit history? Otherwise I just could edit an entry and delete such information ;)

There is an edit history, yes.

Bit paranoid if you ask me, but ok.