Then those individuals should suffer the inconvenience of not being able to delete their own posts ... or suffer the inconvenience of having to notify and waiting for a site administrator to delete the post for them.

One only has to insert their password ONCE and it's there until it's removed ... isn't it? So the personal responsibility remains with the poster, not with the administrator.

I think the delete option a good feature to have on thechipboard when used with occassional discretion. I also think that there are some posters who abuse the delete feature by literally deleting almost every post they ever made. I also strongly believe that once a post is archived it should not be able to be deleted at all.