With the blessing of the big Admin guy, I have made a minor tweek to the member's editing setting.
Members can still edit their messages in the customary way, but they will no longer be able to delete the message entirely.
Thus, a member can withdraw the content of the message, by editing to a blank message, or by posting a note such as "message withdrawn", but some sort of message will persist, with the information of the posters name, and also any editing names.
Message deletion has been a very minor happening, but the above mentioned will eliminate any possibility. This will prevent missing message numbers from happening, and will prevent entire topics from being deleted by having the first message deleted.
This message deletion restriction DOES NOT restrict deletions by anyone with administrative status, but I would strongly suggest that the administrators also voluntarily act as if it did.
Adminnemooseus
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