Editing our posts

[Bonnie Shaljean]

Please restore the unlimited editing option for us to make amendments to our posts, with no restrictions!

I notice now that we get ONE chance and one chance only to make corrections. I’m also not sure if even that option disappears after a certain time-limit. But this is a definite dis-improvement from the old site, so please can this feature be returned to us? Thanks!

[Bonnie Shaljean]

The one Edit chance we get DOES disappear after only a few minutes. Grrrrr! Otherwise, I’d have amended my post above to reflect this. I’ve also thought of something I want to add elsewhere, but can’t unless I start a whole new message (which it doesn’t warrant). Please fix this as soon as possible – it’s sooooooo annoying!

[HBrock25]

You are right, that is very annoying. I have turned it off (well, as best I could — I set the time limit to 999999999 minutes).

I think this is a feature for forums that are more, shall we say, rough-and-tumble than ours — you can imagine malicious users tricking other users by editing their posts after putting them up. I don’t think that’s a problem we have here though.

–Hugh

[Bonnie Shaljean]

Hmmmm, so we have just under two millennia, give or take a century… guess that’s enough (LOL). Thanks!

One thing: Can we retrospectively remove the notices flagging our past edits? I forgot to untick the “Keep a log of this edit” box, and now can’t find a way to do it. Otherwise, can you please delete them from your end? They appear under a number of my posts in the “Pedal harp strings: Savarez or Bow?” thread in the Harps & Accessories forum.

If it turns out that the “keep-a-log” box I forgot to untick was a global command which applies to all posts, then PLEASE get rid of mine! (I’d rather not show everybody how anally-retentive I am about stuff like that.) Thanks –

[HBrock25]

Hmm, I learn more about this forum plugin every day :).

Bonnie, it looks like the only way I can turn off edit logging is to turn it off globally for the whole site. I don’t think I care too much one way or another about it, but I can see how some people might like to be notified about revisions. Should we put it to a vote or something?

Meantime I’m going to dig further and see if I can un-flag your specific revisions as an admin, will let you know here.

–Hugh

[Bonnie Shaljean]

No, don’t bother about turning it off globally – it’s too big a disruption for everybody and as you say, some may want it. I’ll just remember to be super careful to un-tick the box next time!

And if undoing my individual ones in that thread retrospectively is too much hassle, just let them stay as they are. I don’t want you to have to turn the site upside down searching for fixes.

Thanks for such fast responses –

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