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I have been using chat quite a lot recently and when posting some code blocks I sometimes get them wrong and it has gone past the threshold to edit it and I try to delete it but all I can do is flag it for a moderator.
This in my opinion is very counter productive and annoying for the moderators, I think the users should be able to delete their own messages in chat regardless of age.
I don't see any drawbacks of this implementation if it were to be implemented?
Thanks!
I don't see any drawbacks of this implementation if it were to be implemented?
How about this drawback: People would use it.
We're talking about chat here. Conversation. Talking. You can't go back to last weeks party, choose the things you never should have said, and un-say them. In particular, that could quite well remove any sense from the rest of the conversation that was not deleted.
If you feel strongly about it, go ahead and flag for a moderator, but in the usual case – just let it go! It's not the end of the world that there's a mis-formatted message somewhere.
As I side note: As a moderator, I'd much rather see the occasional "I screwed up the formatting here and it looks bad, could you please do X" flag than those ridiculous "This is off-topic!!!!" flags that keep coming up because someone dared to mention in the PHP room what they had for breakfast.
And regarding your comment on Pollyanna's answer:
2mins isn't exactly much time to review a code block
That's true. And the chat isn't an IDE.
The chat room log is recorded on a granite mountain face in South Dakota, and edit/delete operations are expensive. They've implemented a 2 minute fifo so that users can edit/remove them before they are committed to the permanent record, but after that you have to have a really good reason for changes, which is why moderator intervention is required.
