Please consider allowing more than five minutes for edits

Well, remove all the text and put in three dots or something that will allow me to essentially delete the content of the post.

We’ve discussed this request and the consensus is that since you have access to preview your post – something you can do as many times as you feel necessary – five minutes is really sufficient for the edit window.

Careful. I clicked the down arrow a few times on my iPhone, and now the phone is 14 inches long and looks really stupid sticking out of my pocket.

Thanks, Patty. Now they know all about it! :rolleyes:

Yeah, that happend to me, too, and it’s a really hard problem to have! My phone’s pretty big, too.

Braggart. :smiley:

HOLY CRAP! That’s one of the most useful functions ever, and I had no clue it existed! Thanks!!

:eek:Holy Sh-t! I never knew that either!

By this logic, 0 minutes would also be sufficient.

True. It is. I think of 5 minutes as a gift for attention to brain farts. How hard is Preview? Just a habit to get into.

And it was 0 minutes for many, many years. If you’d really like us to, we could go back to that.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I too, cannot find these mystical dots.

We probably annoyed Twickster. Did you make your monthly chocolate donation?

What browser are you using?

Same with Safari. Lines not dots. Very cool, wish I had known this earlier.

Yes it is. But no matter how hard I try to make sure everything’s shipshape, these old eyes always seem to miss something glaringly obviously.

Yes, me, too, but I think that five minutes is a good time. Else we’d get into editing posts after they’ve been commented on. “You spelled Siam wrong!” “I did not!” :slight_smile:

I’m using Firebox on a Mac and not seeing the mystical dots either.

FWIW, on IE it appears there’s neither dots nor lines. Yet another reason IE is so beloved.

(Unlike, say, The Dot and The Line.)