Thanks!
Doesn’t seem to be one in this thread, so I’ll try to make one. Let’s see what happens!
Ok, so I see an orange pencil showing the edit, but I don’t see any history that shows me the change made.
Let me try a few edits myself:
Edit1
Edit2
Edit3
Yeah, you can’t click on someone else’s anymore. They’ve turned that off.
ETA: To get yours, quote the most recent post in full and add some text of your own. system will edit the quote out, giving you an orange pencil (grey to the rest of us) that only you can click on.
Ok, but that’s pretty useless, if it only shows for system edits.
Edit 1
If unlimited editing is turned on, anybody can click on it and it shows all edits (after the first 5 minutes).
ETA: And hey, yours is orange to me now, too. But I still can’t click it.
I’d rather they turn it off completely after 5 min - or preferably 10 min.
90% of edits are only going to be for typos, anyway. I don’t want to have to click on the history of every edited post to try to figure out if anything significant has been changed.
This is what it looks like:
I solved it by going to another browser (Chrome) and going to the offending post. Again I got the black screen, but there was a button to confirm the cancel. Only Firefox users are punished.
I tried to log out in Firefox first, but it apparently impossible to log out.
I disagree, that reason was never sensible.
Yeah, we need editing.
I can’t see anything when I click on anyone else’s edit pencil, only my own.
I don’t know that I agree with being able to edit your post after people have already responded to it, even if the edit history does show. I’d be okay with being able to edit up until the first reply.
That might be doable. You can delete your OP up until somebody responds to it (on most D-boards, anyway).
I thought about starting a new thread, but this is close enough that I’ll put it here.
Whatever decision is made about editing, I think that the ability to delete your posts should be disabled after a short period of time. I just went back and tried to delete an older post of mine from a few weeks ago, and it seems that I was allowed to do it. I’ll check back in 24 hours and see if it’s gone.
The last thing we want here, I think, is people rewriting the history of the boards by removing old posts that they might be embarrassed about, or that might contain information they don’t want revealed. It’s always been part of the board that you live with what you post, and that shouldn’t change, IMO.
I would leave the editing window at five minutes. That’s more than enough time to fix dumb mistakes or typos IMHO, and if other people respond to what you said or quote you, everyone should be able to see what the original post was.
Agreeing with this.
It makes no sense at all to me to say that a post can only be edited for a few minutes after posting, but it can be deleted entirely at any time. All the reasons for limiting editing surely apply to deleting.
It may be easier to implement the 5 minute editing rule than to turn off the ability to delete. Different code and all that.
But yeah, logically, a post that’s been edited with edit history is a lot more transparent than a missing post.
This happens to me all the time. I spot an error, edit and save the post, and then either introduce a new error, or miss a previous one.
Seriously. I think I introduce more errors by editing than I remove.