I’m registered and paid and am now a charter member… but I don’t get an “edit post” button after I post, even though in FAQ’s is says that you can (in general I guess).
Any clues?
Nobody can edit except for the administrators/moderators.
The staff here (which I am not a member of, to be sure), generally, is swamped with eleventy hundred things to do, big and small, so FAQ’s and cleanup in ATMB are pretty low on the list. I agree, that does kind a suck to read one thing when another is true in practice, but that’s the price of being on the 11th (?) biggest MB on the net.
48th. According to this site
But IMO it’s more general-purpose and higher-quality than most of the ones above it. (if not all)
I am on bigger, and they allow editing, and no real problems. Actually, I think it would be rather nice that if " After posting something inflammatory that causes hurt feelings a poster could change what they had said originally " and go back in there, edit out the nasty bit, aplogize, and then it’s over. Of course, the post would have a notation that it 'was eduted by the poster on date time" and some boards require that you add a short “eta” message explaining why.
It seems like dudes here woudl rather “play gotcha” than allow someone to change their mind and withdraw a post made in haste.
And editing for typos- I am so used to doing that, that here my posts look like they were typed by a blinb monkey.
Really- on much larger- and just as controversial boards- than this, they allow editing- and the world has not ended. :rolleyes:
It seems like dudes here would rather you not post in haste.
No, I really like not editing, until we can find a way to fix just this problem. I’ve been on message boards where they did exactly that - same something downright nasty, then wipe it out. Let’s keep it this way.
PaintBall Nation is bigger than us?
Huh.
You can change your mind and withdraw a post made in haste—by creating another post in which you retract your previous statement and offer an apology.
This is an ideal system, because it allows you to correct your mistakes without erasing all evidence that they ever existed in the first place. I’m a big fan of the “no editing” policy.
There are a lot of good things that come of not allowing editing.
For one thing, we don’t get all those niggly little posts correcting people’s grammar and spelling anymore. Everyone makes typos, no one can correct them, and so our grammarians don’t point the finger and giggle. Well, not often, anyhow.
If you make a truly serious typo – like failing to have correct “spoiler” tags, say, or typing “now” when you meant “not” – email the Moderators of the forum, and they’ll be glad to fix it for you. We’re not about to spend our time fixing all trivial little typos, but we will happily fix anything serious.
You just split an infinitive there, Dex…
I may split hairs, but I don’t think I split any infinitives in that particular post… ?
I don’t see the split infinitive either but regardless, there’s nothing wrong with splitting infinitives. They are descriptive,common and now accepted part of the English language.
from AskOxford:
Sorry, people who have split infinitives as a pet peeve are a pet peeve of mine. 
It’s been brought up in more than one English class I’m sure and I do it now:
“To boldly go where no man has gone before…”
“will happily fix,” maybe? 
Maybe you could solve the “saying something mean then retracting” problem by only allowing people to add new text to their post, not delete. Then again, you could just as well add another post after the first one which accomplishes the same thing. I don’t know which one of those things is a bigger strain on the system, editing to add text or creating another post. But that’s just a thought.
I agree that we shouldn’t be allowed to “correct” posts; I’m on other boards where you can edit posts and people say all kinds of stupid stuff just because they know they can delete it. This system’s much better.
Give the man a cigar! And yeah, I know splitting infinitives is perfectly acceptable in English: just couldn’t resist after Dex’s post about Grammar Nazis. As CarnalK’s reference points out, changing the original to “we will fix happily…” just doesn’t read right.