please, how do I selectively clean out the list under "My Posts"

[oldcynic]

Many thanks, ahead of time.

[ret5hd]

1. The pro-active way:

Quit making posts you are later ashamed of!!!

I kid, I kid.

[oldcynic]

3. I've been desparately trying to reach your numbers.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. There isn't any way to clean it out, except to delete the posts.

And they will still show as having been deleted.

[oldcynic]

4. Aren't they taking up a lot of room on whereever these things are stored?

My philosophy has always been never look back, you will only see yourself burning.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I used to wonder that as well, but apparently it's not an issue.

I've bookmarked many threads, all the while wondering about storage in the archives, but none of the Admins has ever said anything about not storing lots of posts.

I wouldn't worry! If there were a problem, they would have told us.

[ret5hd]

7. You aren't storing a seperate copy of a post...

You are merely storing a "pointer" to a post. It would not matter if it was pointing to a post with only one word in it, or a photography post with multiple large jpegs in it...the "pointer" to the post would only take up a few bytes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thank you for the explanation! I had no idea how those things work.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. You posts take up whatever space they take up

The My Posts tab lists out links to those posts for you. The list goes back 30 days. The list includes all OPs and all replies from any group or forum on DU.

Hope this helps

[oldcynic]

9. you guys always come through...

in other words, don't gnaw a knot that ain't holding anything. I throw myself into the wind.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. Thank you for the question

I say thanks here for the times I wondered and puzzled over how this or that worked and read questions written by someone else with a better command of the vocabulary. Those questions and the answers by various subject matter experts led me to the answers to my question(s) that I didn't know how to ask.

A true leader isn't afraid to ask a question.

It's likely that this thread will lead several others to an answer they needed.
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