Thursday, October 22, 2015

tenses - "Your message was deleted" vs. "your message has been deleted"











I don't know which form is better to use, when telling a user that his message was/has been deleted (in the sense that the message was not appropriate/against the rules e.g. in the comment section etc.).


Answer



I would use the sentence




Your message has been deleted.




if I am telling the users right after their message has been deleted. (Like a little notification superimposes on the screen for a few seconds before fading away, something similiar to what happen when you try to upvote your own question.)




But I would use




Your message was deleted




like this page as they search for their long-gone message.


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