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Is being able to 'forever' edit posts been removed? I want to change 'then' to 'them', but I can't edit my post.
 
Give Mike about 2 weeks I reckon & he'll change it back after he's sick of people pm'ing him to say they want to change something in their post. For the record, I think we should be able to edit our posts.
 
Yes. We have someone who had a disagreement with another member and has taken his bat and glove and gone home. Prior to doing so, he went back and deleted all this posts.

After people got sick of seeing "deleted", "deleted", "deleted" all over the place, it was suggested to me that we institute the same 30 minute edit rule as other forums.

Thoughts?

P.S. Bud, I fixed the typo for you.
 
I like the idea of locking posts after 30 minutes. 30 minutes gives you plenty of time to edit something if you make a typo or want to change your train of thought.

If a member gets PO'ed about something and wants to stop posting that's fine, but to go back and delete every post is BS.
 
30 mins is OK. I think there should only be an exception in your own member systems thread that you create. Perhaps the forum software is inflexible in that regards?

Problem with "deleted" it looks like it's been moderated even when cleaned up, it all becomes disjointed like AA is.
 
30 minutes is A OK. If you can't spell, tuff luck :congrats:


Seeing deleted all through posts is almost as childish as seeing "banned" against peoples names in another forum :roflmao:
 
I was wondering what was going on. I thought it was a computer issue on my end.

I don't know about this. On one hand it doesn't seem right to me. On the other, it should not be a big deal.
For those of us with memory issues not being able to edit one of our own posts after 30 minutes can be problematic, but mostly for grammatical reasons perhaps.
I also don't know what the problem is with seeing the word "deleted" from someone leaving the forums and deleting all their posts. I don't even see how one could have done so in the first place if they had hundreds or thousands of posts (it must have taken hours or days to do it). I mean, they are gone, their decision, so what? If it was a bunch of fighting and such, why dredge up all that again or obsess over it by re-reading their posts over and over after the fact?
Perhaps deleting the account of the person who leaves voluntarily or otherwise and having everything they posted disappear would be good? I don't know if there are any legal ramifications to that or not though or if that option is even available in the software or program.
I don't know, maybe I'm missing something?
 
Eric, the deleted posts may have some very good, useful information that is productive to its particular thread. I think posts like that should always stay.
 
XV-1 said:
30 minutes is A OK. If you can't spell, tuff luck :congrats:


Seeing deleted all through posts is almost as childish as seeing "banned" against peoples names in another forum :roflmao:
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That's why spellcheck was invented and it occasionally doesn't work. Fine, there is this thing called a dictionary both offline and online that still works.:)
 
dlb2 said:
Eric, the deleted posts may have some very good, useful information that is productive to its particular thread. I think posts like that should always stay.
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Yes, that is a point Doug. However, if it was 99% fighting or something, what use would it be? That little bit of info could not only be in a haystack or just could be widely available elsewhere.
I don't know, this whole thing could be full of variables making it kind of a tough one. Perhaps the very reason Mike is asking what we all think?:)

Eric
 
Personally, I liked being able to infinitely edit a post. If you make an offensive post then others should quote it for posterity. I am a terrible proof reader, and find errors days later. The WBF also allows infinite editing, but does add the 'Edited' tag if a post has been edited after an hour.
 
My take is that those who dribble should use a napkin and not a forum.
 
Doesn't vBulletin offer post edit history functionality? The forum administrator should be able to restore the post to it's previous state.
 
BlueFox said:
Personally, I liked being able to infinitely edit a post. If you make an offensive post then others should quote it for posterity. I am a terrible proof reader, and find errors days later. The WBF also allows infinite editing, but does add the 'Edited' tag if a post has been edited after an hour.
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I do too only because I'm also a terrible proof reader and on occasion I'll leave a word out of a sentence which sometimes changes the whole meaning.
 
The Sandman said:
Doesn't vBulletin offer post edit history functionality? The forum administrator should be able to restore the post to it's previous state.
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It does, but I don't want to follow around to find all the damn posts he deleted.
 
Taking a minute longer to check a post and think about it's meaning (including any potentially harmful implications) may be a good thing for members. Preexisting knowledge about the record being permanent may mitigate some of these destructive conversations from getting started.
 
I think we should have 24 hours to edit a post.

Some times work and life obligations interfere with the intention to proofread, etc. oplus some of us hunt and peckers are lousy typists to start with.
 
wisnon said:
I think we should have 24 hours to edit a post.

Some times work and life obligations interfere with the intention to proofread, etc. oplus some of us hunt and peckers are lousy typists to start with.
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Norman, yes, 24 hours. I think that is a great suggestion, reasonable amount of time. I like it! (I'm a lousy typist too and here I am now trying to write about the audio hootenanny I attended. :rolleyes:)

Ok Mike, how about it? Doable? What say ye?:)

~Eric
 
I like the idea of a 24 hour modification window.
In my opinion if someone cannot govern themselves accordingly then they should lose the right to post here immediately.
 
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