# Post Editing **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 19, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683 "2003-04-19T19:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/1 "2003-04-19T19:57:00Z")
Is it considered bad form to do this? \*Last edited by USCDiver on 04-19-2003 at 04:05 PM \* ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/2 "2003-04-19T20:07:07Z")
You`ll get all the newbies' undies in a bundle as they try to figure out how to edit their own posts. This will undoubtedly cause numerous submissions to the Mods as how some can and some can`t edit their own work. Of course, the truth is that only the ELITE can edit their posts. _Last edited by whuckfistle on 04-19-2003 at 3:08 PM._ ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/3 "2003-04-19T20:11:04Z")
The real key is in the time stamp…I’m not sure if it puts the local time, or user’s time. Yours appears to me to have been edited an hour before it was posted. \*Last edited by USCDiver on 04-19-2003 at 04:20 PM \* ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/4 "2003-04-19T20:15:13Z")
Actually, in a jocular thread in the pit about mods hogging all the cool powers, I was going to post something like this: > [@](#): > > You know why? \<_bunch of thread-relevant and hopefully humurous text_\> I’ll tell you why. It’s all because of > > _Last edited by Eutychus on 04-17-2003 at 5:68 PM._ But I figured I shouldn’t. 😃 Oh, and **Diver** , the time stamp on the left is keyed to the time settings of whoever’s reading it. (I think) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/5 "2003-04-19T20:17:51Z")
You can’t get too far with the joke, \*\* USCDiver \*\*, when your “editing timestamp” is out by several minutes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/6 "2003-04-19T20:23:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by USCDiver \* > \*\*The real key is in the time stamp…I’m not sure if it puts the local time, or user’s time. Yours appears to me to have been edited an hour before it was posted. > > \*Last edited by USCDiver on 04-19-2003 at 04:20 PM \* \*\* Ha - On my screen your post shows the original at 2:57 and the edit at 4:05. It shows my orignal at 3:07 and the edit at 3:08. WTF. I have to stop fidgeting with the time machine I guess. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-editing/169683/7 "2003-04-19T20:39:54Z")
There was a recent Pit thread where we let it go for a while because it was funny and central to the OP. But generally, yes. It is extremely poor form and violates our rules.