Short of asking everyone to vote it down, do you think the person who posted a link should be able to "retract" it (maybe within a short time of posting it or before it accumulates any comments or points)?

There are times when I post things and after I go back and look at it, I decide it kinda' sucks. I know it doesn't hurt anything to leave it there but it would be nice to have an "undo" button.

What do you think?

Or a return of the "prune" button, which wouldn't hurt Karma but would get rid of dupes. I suppose you should be able to prune your own posts, BUT, maybe this will help people to think things through before posting them? (I mean, not that I'll start thinking things through, but you know what I mean.)

I agree with you... the trouble is that as it gets later in the evening my ADD kicks in and my "standards" sometimes slip.

That's really what I was thinking about when I posted this.

Yeah, I get better late and you get suck. ; )
Can't you just down vote, with your points, to lower it to sh!t status?

Apply the old carpenters' rule of "measure twice, cut once".

Think twice, plime once.

Good advice.

Maybe this has been posted elsewhere (or is frowned on), but one way around this is to completely revise your entire submission (title, photo, link, the whole thing).

I thought about that but chances are I would just be substituting crap for crap. I'll try the carpenter's approach for a while and see if that helps.

Voting it down yourself won't hurt you, as voting on yourself doesn't effect your karma. Of course to vote something down as a single person, you'd need to be at least a level 15... (otherwise you'd need multiple people totalling 15 or more).

Returning the prune button isn't a bad idea, except it would cause confusion with the downvoting.

This may be a little counterintuitive, but make pruning hard to do. Or maybe just add a confirmation page for pruning, clearly stating when it is and isn't appropriate to prune.

Prune was only gone just a week or two after I started participating on the site, so I don't exactly recall how it worked. How many times did 'prune' need hit to go away? Was it based on Karma level?

Like was it "Three people hit PRUNE, so the post is gone"? Or was it "a total of 15 karma was applied to PRUNE, so the post is gone?"

I'll just go at it blindly here, but maybe have 'PRUNE' an option for the person submitting the article, and only a 'duplicate' button for the other users wherein they would have to supply a link to the dupe. That way people submitting crap get down-voted accordingly and sent to the delete pool unless the submitter pulls it before that can happen.

I always liked the prune button, not only because it was a good tool (in my opinion) but because naming it "prune" fit in with the whole "tree" theme of Plime. Maybe make it part of your profile page so it's not just out in the open all the time, but make sure to put it prominently in the FAQ, showing it's location and reasons for using it. Make it a "no-karma-level-requirement" for using it on yourself, but make it a fairly high karma level to use it on others. Like only a level 25 minimum or Jax could prune other's posts. (yes, I know no one is a 25 yet, but it's an extremely powerfull skill to have, maybe the most powerfull skill out there)

What about the possibility of a prune hit counter? Like after so many hits it is pruned (or if Jax wants to prune it). That way it wouldn't be one person abusing power, it would be several people who felt it needed to be pruned.

That's how it ran. It was pruned when enough people gave it the same prune choice.

DEP, Jax is just too fast for me.

Ooh, it's thread 666! Someone call rob_church!

I would certainly like an option to get rid of a post. Measure twice, cut once, but then I was never good in woodshop . . . I felt bad getting downvoted AFTER I realized my mistake, yet there seemed to be nothing I could do to get rid of the post. Seemed rather unfair for people to keep downvoting it after I'd already realized the mistake and downvoted it myself to knock it off the page.