Editing Posts

NorioDS · 2011-10-21T14:37:12+00:00

Some of you (okay, okay, one of you - Hi Mikey ?) may have noticed that you can no longer edit your posts after posting them. This is intentional. We've had issues in the past that resulted from members editing posts and, considering that, in general, it's usually not possible to edit your posts on forums after you've posted them, I thought it might be wise to remove this feature. (I was busy doing upgrades on the forum and unticked this box as I went along. No biggie to undo it if the argument for that is good.) GFSA started out being overly permissive (you used to be able to attach files to your posts, etc) but, as time goes by, it seems to make sense to remove some of these features and reserve them for moderator use only. Specifically, I'm of the opinion that editing posts and usernames should be reserved for moderators. But... I'm posting this here because I like to think we're a benevolent dictatorship and so I'm interested in hearing from the mods and members if you disagree - why do you disagree. If it makes sense, I'll slap my own wrists and return this functionality back to normal ?

Ray

All I really need sometimes is to be able to delete a post. I've thought about changing my name to a nickname but then I decided against it. One or two of the appearances of the same oke in another incarnation has bamboozled me a bit in the past.

Mr-M

Alan Ratcliffe wrote If you are the thread starter (A.K.A. the advertiser), you have the ability to edit your own posts at any time and delete posts by others in your classified threads.

singemonkey

Kif. I was working up a head of outrage. I'm not ok leaving some ludicrous typo that I spot immediately after posting.

If you are the OP, you can still edit after 60mins, right? That's important for people reading the post for the first time when something has changed radically on say, page 6.

AlanRatcliffe

Mr T wrote Please excuse my ignorance, but I can't seem to find an edit button in my classified topics. ???

There should be a "modify" option in the links to the right of the topic name. I've checked it in the board settings and it is enabled. The only thing I can think of is the 60 minute thing is overriding it. I'll ask Norio to investigate.

MikeM

If you posted it while the forum was in non-edit mode, you won't be able to edit it.

Mr-M

Alan Ratcliffe wrote There should be a "modify" option in the links to the right of the topic name. I've checked it in the board settings and it is enabled. The only thing I can think of is the 60 minute thing is overriding it. I'll ask Norio to investigate.

Thanks. Much appreciated. ?

Bob-Dubery

Alan Ratcliffe wrote While I can agree with the username edits being restricted (and we should possibly add quotation marks as forbidden characters to prevent similar things with signups),

Hashes (#) too please. They also cause problems with functionality like PMing and viewing user profiles.

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote Kif. I was working up a head of outrage. I'm not ok leaving some ludicrous typo that I spot immediately after posting.

You get that too?

I like to use the "Preview" feature and I never see the pytos then. But then you click "Post" and they're all over the place.

I conclude that there's a function linked to the "Post" button, or an "undocumented feature", that randomly introduces spelling errors.

Jack-Flash-Jr

X-rated Bob wrote
singemonkey wrote Kif. I was working up a head of outrage. I'm not ok leaving some ludicrous typo that I spot immediately after posting.
You get that too?

I like to use the "Preview" feature and I never see the pytos then. But then you click "Post" and they're all over the place.

I conclude that there's a function linked to the "Post" button, or an "undocumented feature", that randomly introduces spelling errors.

Indeede.

NorioDS

X-rated Bob wrote
Alan Ratcliffe wrote While I can agree with the username edits being restricted (and we should possibly add quotation marks as forbidden characters to prevent similar things with signups),
Hashes (#) too please. They also cause problems with functionality like PMing and viewing user profiles.

Both have just been added as restricted characters on registration. This doesn't prevent people from modifying their display names later and using weird characters so I'm considering disabling that entirely.

As for the Classifieds issue - investigating.

AlanRatcliffe

OK. Looks like the 60 minute thing is causing the issue. I have asked Norio to remove it for now.

We are currently looking at buying and installing a full-blown classads system for the forum, which will allow all sorts of extra features in the classifieds section (auto expiry, picture uploads, ad edits, etc.).

So please give us a few weeks to look at a few packages and do some testing. Once that is in place, we will revisit the time limit on edits.

MikeM

I don't think the editting time limit being gone bothers anyone but Norio ?

Skylark

Wahaha , thought I had somehow been bad so the mods had blocked me from editing my own posts!!
Was scratching my head as to what I could have possibly done
Will now use preview a lot more diligently :-[

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