timberwolf1 Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Thank you for adding the ability to edit a poster's comments on the photo critic area. Now if this would be added to the other Forum's areas, I could edit my phrases! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 One should do that before one posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesp Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 but why not allow it for simple typos, oversights, etc? is there actually a philosophy behind not having the option, or is it just difficult to impliment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_chamberlain Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 most every forum i have seen allows editing after the post has been made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 The reason it isn't permitted is because some folks get themselves into a debate, then decide to bail out and delete all their posts. This leaves a completely illogical thread. Unfortunately, the software can't distinguish between a typo and a complete deletion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanb Posted March 7, 2004 Share Posted March 7, 2004 Or even worse, wait for someone to respond to their comments with an "I agree" reply and then edit their original comment to say the complete opposite of what the second poster was agreeing to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_linscombe Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 There's a couple ways to get around this. The first is to have a time limit. If it's older than X minutes, it can't be edited. This should be sufficient for people that just need to fix something they missed in the preview. I mean we all read the previews but since it's something we just wrote, sometimes we read what we wanna read, restating it in our head instead of actually proofreading it. The second is to store the original post and have it accessible by a link. Since it's just text, and Brian mentioned that disk space is no issue, it wouldn't be a problem I don't think. This would really dissuade people from "bailing out" or any of that, as there would be irrefutable proof just a click away. Since it doesn't need to display the "Show Original" link if it hasn't been edited, this shouldn't break old posts either. I've administrated some forums before that have the edit capability but do not have either of the above features and I never ran into the kind of "theoretical" problems... but even then, neither of those features are hard, at all, to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I have to agree on this. One of the few "bonuses" of being a moderator is that I can go back and change my posts if need be. And I make use of it a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twmeyer Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 Leave it as is... if there's some serious issue with a contribution, take it to the moderator, otherwise the initial review should be sufficient... <p>Some individuals have made a career of writing unsolicited novellas on photo.net's forum threads. I shudder to think what would happen if they were allowed to second guess themselves, ad nauseum. Probably crash the server... t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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