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What are the odds of getting an "edit" function added on the forum? (only for your own posts of course)
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I know this has been discussed before. I believe the issues was people going and changing their own responses. It would make a conversation hard to keep up with if the dialog kept changing. Although if it had a feature to show the original post then the edited one. There would be no issue of i know you said this.
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Well with any edit feature I've seen there is an indication of if and when the message was edited and by whom (mod or user).
message was edited a total of 1 time(s) by Zombiej or something similar. You don't stop people from editing their posts but if they want to claim they said something or didn't say something it would be pretty obvious when you look at if it was edited or not.
Might be more trouble than I realize to implement something like that but it would be nice. Or even a feature that lets you edit until someone replies to it.
message was edited a total of 1 time(s) by Zombiej or something similar. You don't stop people from editing their posts but if they want to claim they said something or didn't say something it would be pretty obvious when you look at if it was edited or not.
Might be more trouble than I realize to implement something like that but it would be nice. Or even a feature that lets you edit until someone replies to it.
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*Maybe* if there was a way to turn off the ability to edit, say, 10 minutes in. Otherwise it would be too easy for people to post mean, malicious things, delete them before the mods make it in, and then act all innocent when the lights go on in the room. Of course, then you start to have the issue that one of the strong points of this sort of message board is its simplicity; it allows Rich and Eric to have a really large and often pointless message board without appreciably slowing down the front end of the site. Would an edit function help to compromise that? I'd fear so.
Personally, I think the proper modus operandi is to shame people who make grammatical errors until they cry and then have them banned for crying. That seems like the be...
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Personally, I think the proper modus operandi is to shame people who make grammatical errors until they cry and then have them banned for crying. That seems like the be...
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Some forums that actually have that ability disable it...
I guess they don't want anyone saying they "never said that."
I guess they don't want anyone saying they "never said that."
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