The sentence was a bit too long like that, sometimes you don't notice these things until you read them out loud.

I split it into two sentences:

Damn,

It's the right answer of course Mal, better than what I would have proposed, which means that now I have to put the Kenny/semicolon joke into cold storage for another occasion.

It'll keep, and still be just as ripe when it's needed.

Yes, Mal - perfect - makes it say exactly what it's supposed to say - but as you can see - I still play around with my hyphens!

Just to let you know I've added the following to the COD:
In case you didn't know all the Sweepers/Moderators can view the ip address that you post from, the information given also includes other users that have posted from the same ip.

Now obviously some people are going to have the same ip because they live in the same house or street, or work on the same bank of computers etc. But it does raise suspicions when two new people join and anounce themselves as seperate people without indicating any connection between the two, which is why I posted this: http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/fortopic901.html

Not as an accusation exactly, but just as a chance for NobbyNobbsJr and/or wannabenanny to confirm the situation.

Now there's nothing wrong with two family members/friends or what have you posting seperately, but we have had troubles in the past with someone pretending to be two people and causing a bit of angst with it when it became public knowledge. So we do prefer that people stick to the one personality please.

If NobbyNobbsJr and wannabenanny are two people then fine, if you are the same person we might let you off for being new if you admit it and stick to the one account? Though neither has posted sinse I posted my message, so they might have scarpered.

On a similar note, it would be nice if Human could explain donna_troy, who I sent a PM to and who cunningly didn't read it (my own fault for titling it 'you and Human') and decided not to post any further messages? Human is still posting I think, but nevertheless I think the same should apply to you - i.e. we can let you off if you were posting twice, as you stopped right away and there was no proper rule for it in the past... or perhaps donna_troy is your sister or something and didn't want anyone to know?

o.k. I don't get to visit every day so I missed this message but to clarify ...Hi my name is Tracey I have a son Lachlan ,we live in Australia and are big Pratchett fans ,we are not the same person ,I'm too old to go to school and he's too young to have 6 kids, I'm sorry if there has been some confusion ,when I joined I had to supply my email address it would have been easy to email me off group for clarification. why would people want to log on as two seperate entities any way?

That's okay then, sorry for the confusion. There have been one or two people in the past posting as two people, as to why - I guess they are just fools, who knows?

That reminded me of the two headed ogres of Warcraft 2.
Head one: We're ready, master!
Head two: I'm not!

I'm posting this for Garner, wannabenanny, who is currently at work and only has email access:

Thanks for the explanantion,I guess there are wierdo's evrywhere ofcourse pratchett fans are completely normal : ) Yes I put Lachlan onto pratchett after a good friend of mine gave me guards, guards about 6 years ago(I think) the whole family are huge fans with my husband just playing Sgt. Colon in a local production of "the Truth" . see you around the boards.

Hey, I thought we had something in our Code of Conduct about not deleteing messages. It turned out I remembered wrongly.
I checked after a new member deleted several posts of theirs, even after one had been answered to. Seeing it's not put down anywhere that, traditionally, we used to frown upon it, he/she couldn't know any better.

So, there's no ill will in mentioning it here, in case you stumble upon it, ttl, but it was a good example why we used to tell people off for doing it: It makes the people who answered to a vanished post look strange, it diggs up threads without adding anything in the end, and it has actually actively been used to make people look more aggressive or stupid by changing the actual context of a discussion.

Should it be put into the Code of Conduct?

Something like, "Please delete posts only when asked to do so by a moderator. If you double posted, edit the second post and put a short explanation in the box below the post that says "Reason for editing" (just "double post" would be enough). Edit the content of your posts only within a certain time frime after posting, and try to refrain from it if somebody already answered to your post."

Maybe a short reason, too, but right now, I can't come up with a sentence
that sounds gramatically right to me. What do you think?

or is there a way on this particular forum to only allow deletion if there are no answers ? same with editing (except for mods, obviously). I have been on a couple of boards that had a system like that, it worked quite well, it allows you to correct your spelling if you need to, but not change the course of a conversation.

That would be a good idea.