This seems reasonable?
SO now that we have FIVE minutes, are we seeing much of the behavior that Dex so confidently predicted? We are not. This seems over-the-top hyperbole to me.
This seems reasonable?
SO now that we have FIVE minutes, are we seeing much of the behavior that Dex so confidently predicted? We are not. This seems over-the-top hyperbole to me.
I don’t know if our version of vBulletin has it, but I know some versions allow functions to check if any user has viewed the thread since the last post. So you could make the edit window infinite as long as nobody other than the poster of the message has viewed the thread since then, then once it has been viewed, kick in the 5-minute window.
Something Awful does this, they use a modified version of vBulletin, and they have unlimited editing, but if nobody has viewed the thread it doesn’t add that little vBulletin splat to the bottom telling everybody you edited. So I know it’s possible with vBulletin, but I don’t know how much effort it would take to implement.
ETA: We can probably do it with our version, we have 3.7.3, SA is only running a (again, modified) version of 2.2.9. Again, no idea how much effort it would require though.
Man! That’s really going to cramp my style.
Reminds me of an argument I heard between an inspector and a contractor when I worked in construction:
C: It’s good enough!
I: Yeah, if your standard for ‘good enough’ is ‘it doesn’t immediately fail catastrophically’…