Delete the EDIT function Please !

[QC]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

Hah

 

[skargo]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

LOL little! Although I have lost 14lbs in 3 weeks!

 

[lncoop]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

This battle was fought many software versions ago. With a software update, management tried to eliminate the edit function. The Body rose up and smote them. Live with it! We won the right to have it (with no edit notations) and hopefully it is here to stay!!

Yacht Dr., you are a lone voice in the wilderness. Do not let your own voice deafen you!

However, if your lone voice does begin to deafen you I suggest you edit it posthaste!

 

[joed]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

Editing a post after it has been replied to can often change the meaning of the thread. Often responses are present that make no sense since the original has been edited.
some suggestions based on how edit works on other sites
1. Limit the edit function to 1 hour, 1 day or something similar.
2. Always indicate the post has been edited even if no reason is given.

 

[QC]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

One reason we left the edit function totally alone was Restore threads. We know that users often go back and edit titles and even content when there are significant updates to the thread when it is being changed from a running dialogue to a "completed project".

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

How much wood would a woodchuck would if a woodchuck would chuck wood ?

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Who knows my first post at a member .. that is my point .. It does not show that I have Edited my First post and the body of the first ... It can be changed to anything I want now..

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4 times I have now edited this post .. Nobody knows I did this beside the mods ( or someone quick enough to quote ) ..

Question remains ..

I am sure you wouldn't have wasted time on this post without a point to make, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is bothering you.
There really are two kinds of post in these forums....1) someone looking for help with a problem, or 2) someone just sharing a thought, something they've seen elsewhere, or just an opinion.
If the OP wants to keep changing their original post, in type 1) it may (or may not) restrict how good a solution gets offered to them....and if 2) no harm no foul....IMO.

 

[oops!]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

If I edit someone else's posts I definitely leave a reason or an Edit note in the body of the post, usually both. If I edit my own after a millesecond (which I do often) I usually won't note it. If it is later, or has been quoted I fess up to my typos. Either way the edit function isn't going anywhere. If you guys would stop bickering, no one would need to remove anything . . .

this is how i use the edit button......previously......the log in time would time out during the writing of the post....so i would post that section....then hit edit...and add the rest so it wouldnt time out and i would loose everything.....

now just after i post the reply, i re read the post and edit it to clarify or check the spelling/grammar.

the edit function has helped me not to loose many a posts

 

[JRJ]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

Appears to be mostly post padding to me.....

 

[Yacht Dr.]

Re: Delete the EDIT function Please !

Editing a post after it has been replied to can often change the meaning of the thread. Often responses are present that make no sense since the original has been edited.
some suggestions based on how edit works on other sites
1. Limit the edit function to 1 hour, 1 day or something similar.
2. Always indicate the post has been edited even if no reason is given.

Exactly .. I thought that Iboats had the indication of edit before .. I could be mistaken.

My reasoning was already stated up on #17

"I have seen post in the past that Stated something..then later on added or subtracted a part of the post. .. this makes for some confusing postings that are in the thread where one thing was stated..then was added or subtracted to."

I thought I would get more support on this one .. Never mind carry on .

YD.

PS. Can we get a "User Thread Closed" option .. oh crap Im highjacking my own thread lol.