The version currently in use by this board?
Yes.
Cool.
Not exactly a selling point, is it? 
I’m thinking that having an additional “first minute no-notice” edit function might not be looked on favorably by the mods for that very reason, but maybe I’m wrong.
No time to edit = no abuse of the system
Less time to edit = betterer quality posts
No time to edit = maximum incentive to get it write the first time
Thank you both for being in support of repealing the 5 minute edit feature.
No, the 5 minute edit allows for corrections like typos.
I guess by your same logic in reverse, there should be no time limit whatsoever on editing. Is that what you’re proposing?
Well, we keep hearing about how unlimited editing leads to abuse, and it isn’t long after that gets instituted that the entire universe collapses into a black hole.
Or not. The only way to see is to try longer and longer editing windows and figure out where the abuse comes in.
After all, the reason we had NO window for so long was the terror of incomprehensible threads due to edited posts. THAT hasn’t happened yet, has it? Is a six-minute window likelier to lead directly to chaos?
I’ve heard this argument from opponnents, but the only ones I see taking the argument to ridiculous extremes seems to be the proponents, i.e.
Is the standard now to go for it unless it’s going to be a complete disaster?
Are you asking for a cite that the Mods’ typical response to a request for change goes something like, “Nah, we think things are fine as is and unknown dangers lurk in your proposal”?
No, I am not. I am merely suggesting that putting ridiculously extreme phrases in the mouths of others does nothing to further the conversation-it is a strawman argument.
Sorry, just trying to write in an amusing style. Excuse me while I go kill myself. (Oh, no! More hyperbole! When will this maniac stop??!!) The point is still a valid one: the Mods don’t respond favorably to even the most sensible of minor-change request, and often give a bogus “BB-b-b-b-but that’s never been tried before! Who knows where that will lead??”-type response to most requests.
Cite, please? I’d like to see if your interpretation of a mod response matches up with mine.
As long as your first post has a timestamp from before 12:09, why should you feel bad? If there were no timestamps on posts, yes, editing could be a problem. However, mods can see the original text anyway and I dunno if it’s possible in vBulletin, but Facebook, of all places has the original text viewable to all who have access to the comment which I think is fine and lovely.
It won’t, though I agree with him. Do you really want people to be reminded of your performance in the Avatars Thread O’ Doom?
Do try to stay on topic, bucky. Whether it will or won’t would depend on the post cited.
I don’t think this is really important enough for them to try a whole bunch of times and study whether 6 minutes is better than 7. Try 10 minutes, if confusion sets in then change it back.
Unlimited edit time can cause problems that come up only once in a while. Sometimes someone gets pissed off and goes back and erases all there posts
God no!!!111!!
No time limit = no incentive to craft a quality post. (hell you could just dump glurg to hold a position in the thread and come back later with the winning post. FIRST!!!
Word or a decent browser both do a pretty good job at catching the vast majority of typos. Regardless, typos certainly isn’t a good argument for 5 minutes. One, perhaps two at the most should suffice.
Hell no. This is why I still never drive faster than 55. It was fine and dandy for years. Anything faster has unknown risk.
I was just looking back to see how this edit window came into play in the first place, and I gotta say it’s odd. In 2005 we get an ATMB request thread we get the Admin’s view:
and locked down. It wasn’t even a heated thread, kind of a surprising shut down, though Tuba used to be a little quicker on that trigger years ago. Then, 2 years later they suddenly turn it on with no announcement, as far as I can tell. I wonder what made them flip so suddenly.
Czarcasm–will you accept CarnalK’s examples of Mod overreaction to mild suggestions?
I won’t. Their concerns seemed pretty reasonable and non-hyperbolic.