Cholula, did you mean to say that one could delete the contents of the post? That would seem to make more sense than to say that one could delete the post itself. SFAIK, one cannot delete the post itself in a non-OMNI thread--though you are the expert in this matter, and I am just asking.

If deleting contents of a post (as opposed to deleting the post) is what you meant to say, then your comment that one does not have to replace the deleted text with null text might make sense. I am reading your post literally and not understanding it.

Again, for any newbie reading this, the rules are different for OMNI in post deletion. In those, even though OMNI posts can more or less be deleted, one had better delete text and replace it with null text first.

(So long as I am posting anyway, have been wanting to ask: Is FT working on repairing the vBulletin flaw that makes deleted OMNI posts continue to be displayed in an FT search? The flaw has evidently been known to exist for months? TIA for answering.)

ETA: I just remembered, in the above scenario of deleting text in a non-OMNI post and saving the deletion, it is not possible to save a deletion unless there are at least a few characters to save, hence the logic of typing in some null text. So I'm still not understanding any of this.