That was my original assumption, but the edit button is not available to me for this post...
I may have caused this. Earlier today I closed a browser window with edit open on this article. I suppose that may be blocking me from editing in a new window.
That wouldn’t do it. The only explanation I can think of that makes sense, is that your karma has fallen under the main section posting threshold (20), and the post you’re trying to edit is in the main section. If that is indeed the cause, then that’d be a bug (you shouldn’t need karma to move things from the main section into the discussion section).
Was going to vote up to test, but it looks like it’s too late since this is already deleted.
Even though the post has been deleted I still can’t edit it. If I can edit it again when my karma goes over 20, that will help to confirm your idea.
I might be able to do this soon, someone has managed to upvote the deleted post. This puts me near the 20 threshold. (Edit: spoke too soon, the upvote is gone now.)(Edit: Back again thanks to AdeleneDawner.)
On a side note, I wanted to see what happened if I resubmitted the deleted post. I did not really expect to be able to undelete the post, but I was curious.
First I submitted it to myself as a draft. This had the effect of preventing me from accessing the post if I was not logged in as myself. It appears that deleting a post and resubmitting it as a draft locks out other people.
Then I submitted it to Discussion. The post is still marked as deleted and did not show up in Discussion, which is what I expected. However now when I edit the post, I no longer have any submission choices, I can only submit it back to Discussion.
That was me, I think. I was testing to see if it was upvotable—of course I forgot to check your karma before trying to upvote it, so I had to remove the vote to check and make sure it actually affected it.
I’ll put the upvote back for now, so if you can get someone else to do the same you’ll be over the threshold.
No. Click “Edit” then on the “Post To” dropdown, select “LessWrong Discussion”.
That was my original assumption, but the edit button is not available to me for this post...
I may have caused this. Earlier today I closed a browser window with edit open on this article. I suppose that may be blocking me from editing in a new window.
That wouldn’t do it. The only explanation I can think of that makes sense, is that your karma has fallen under the main section posting threshold (20), and the post you’re trying to edit is in the main section. If that is indeed the cause, then that’d be a bug (you shouldn’t need karma to move things from the main section into the discussion section). Was going to vote up to test, but it looks like it’s too late since this is already deleted.
Even though the post has been deleted I still can’t edit it. If I can edit it again when my karma goes over 20, that will help to confirm your idea.
I might be able to do this soon, someone has managed to upvote the deleted post. This puts me near the 20 threshold. (Edit: spoke too soon, the upvote is gone now.)(Edit: Back again thanks to AdeleneDawner.)
Upvoted. Can you edit now?
On a side note, I wanted to see what happened if I resubmitted the deleted post. I did not really expect to be able to undelete the post, but I was curious.
First I submitted it to myself as a draft. This had the effect of preventing me from accessing the post if I was not logged in as myself. It appears that deleting a post and resubmitting it as a draft locks out other people.
Then I submitted it to Discussion. The post is still marked as deleted and did not show up in Discussion, which is what I expected. However now when I edit the post, I no longer have any submission choices, I can only submit it back to Discussion.
Yes I can, thanks for the help.
That was me, I think. I was testing to see if it was upvotable—of course I forgot to check your karma before trying to upvote it, so I had to remove the vote to check and make sure it actually affected it.
I’ll put the upvote back for now, so if you can get someone else to do the same you’ll be over the threshold.