Help anyone?

[themostepotente]

How do you delete a community you mod (I maintain) that you don't want anymore? I inadvertently deleted my own journal for a fraction of second in trying to do so. I clicked on the comm I wanted to delete (under 'work as') and still it deleted my personal journal. What am I doing wrong?

*feels like a major idjit*

--P

ETA: It worked now. Stupid motherfucker!

Comments

[kaysha.livejournal.com]

Are you the maintainer of the community or only a mod? As far as I know only maintainers can delete communities..

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I am the maintainer.

[kaysha.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Very strange. Maybe it's an LJ glitch? Or maybe there's something wrong with the cookie..

I guess you could always create a sockpuppet journal, transfer maintainer rights to the sockpuppet and try deleting it that way?

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea, actually. Thanks!

[ex-pixystick865.livejournal.com]

Did you remember to click switch after you changed the work as name? I know that I've thought I was working under a community since I clicked the drag down box, but I had forgotten to actually press the switch button before. Otherwise, I've got no idea.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I did remember to click switch, so I've no idea either :(

[danbi.livejournal.com]

You gotta switch it, like the person above me said. I did the same thing as you when I was trying to delete a community. It's like adding memories to a community - gotta use the drop-down box.

Good times.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

What they said about the "switch" button. Happened to me. Nothing so scary as seeing your own username with a slash through it when you DIDN'T MEAN IT!

[xylodemon.livejournal.com]

No, there really isn't. I deleted my own journal last week the same way, and I was like OMG BRING IT BACK.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna try it again. Wish me luck. *sweatdrop*

[danbi.livejournal.com]

But I thought you liked slash.

...badumchsh.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

...and a three from the Russian judge.

[danbi.livejournal.com]

You're Russian?

But there's no hurry.

...someone give me butter cause I'm on a roll!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I'm such a chickenshit. I'm afraid to try it again!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, adding memories to a community? I don't even want to think about doing that until I've got deletion down :P

[danbi.livejournal.com]

Well it's the same thing, really. Though I added quite a few bits of fanfiction to my own journal before I realised I was doing it wrong. Oh well.

And I see in your ETA that it worked, so good times all around. And in a circle. And a square, for kicks.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Yes, finally. It was a LotR community that I had no time in trying to manage. Out with the old, I say.

[xochiquetzl]

Pretty much what everyone else said, although it sounds like you forgot to click "switch" after changing the "work as" toggle.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=93

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I went to that link. Did everything everyone suggested. Glitch, mebbe?

[xochiquetzl]

Could be, yeah. Your "switch user" button didn't take, as far as I can tell.