Editing

Discussion in 'Help Requests' started by Ken Anderson, Jan 30, 2015.

  1. Frank Sanoica

    Frank Sanoica Supreme Member
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    So far, I have NOT figured out how to title edit. Is there some trick I'm missing? Thanks! Frank
     
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    On any thread you have started...open the thread and on the top right it will say ''thread tools'.. Click on that, and ''edit title''... :)
     
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    @Frank Sanoica , Holly's right….and check out Ken's post #11 above. It worked for me.
     
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  4. Frank Sanoica

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    Thanks, Holly! Somehow I missed that #11. As usual, I talk too quickly! Frank
     
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  5. Ken Anderson

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    You may have noticed that I have changed the time in which someone can edit or delete their posts back to fifteen minutes. I had raised it considerably for those of you who have been here a while, and have contributed several posts to the forum, but someone decided to delete dozens of his posts a week or two ago. There were replies to them, so the absence of his posts made the whole thread meaningless.

    I can retrieve deleted posts but I have to do it one at a time, and that has some problems in itself, as others had commented on the absence of posts that I had restored. Finally, I gave up and deleted the whole thread, then banned the member for a month. Usually when someone does something like that, they are planning on leaving anyhow but if he wants to come back, he's welcome.

    It's hard to know how to handle these things. As a forum member, you might reasonably think that they are your posts, so you should be able to delete them if you want to. But that affects every post that was in reply to yours, so it affects other forum members as well and, in the end, it ruins the forum.

    In another forum I had years ago, I was allowing people to delete their posts, and someone spent the night deleting thousands of posts that she had made over a period of about four years. I awoke to find that there was no point in continuing the forum, so I closed it down.
     
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  6. Chrissy Cross

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    Yea, Ive noticed a change in time for editing, guess I'll have to be more careful. I make lots of mistakes because I never proofread until I come back to it later and see my mistakes...but I understand where you're coming from.

    Once I notice someone deleting posts, I quit replying to them...I wish people wouldn't do that. I can understand a couple times...Ive done it when Ive regretted something I posted and then deleted it but it was usually before anyone replied or quoted it.
     
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  7. Ken Anderson

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    I would love to allow people to edit their posts because I know that I like to edit mine whenever I come across a typo or something, but then there will always be someone who will edit out all of the content from their post, which is even worse than deleting a post because then I can't even retrieve it.
     
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    I think fifteen minutes is too short a time to allow editing. Sometimes I post a reply impulsively then an hour or so later, I wish I hadn't posted it or had worded it differently. This will definitely make me be more cautious about what I post; possibly not post at all on many threads.
     
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  9. Frank Sanoica

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    Gotta agree with @Shirley Martin , I discovered a mis-spelled word just a few minutes ago, but cannot fix it. I fully understand, though, @Ken Anderson the difficulties you explained about editing.
    Frank
     
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    @Ken Anderson ... an you PLEASE change the editing time to just a little bit longer? 30 mins -1 hr?

    I'm seeing so many typos and I can't fix them.

    Ive been posting the same way on here forever and that's hard for me to change.

    I'll post something and hit reply and then go somewhere else on the internet, then I come back here, see my post and it's too late to edit.

    Don't think it will be abused if it's only a little longer length of time.
     
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  11. Chrissy Cross

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    See, already see one...the c in can didn't appear. :(
     
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  12. Babs Hunt

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    Well I think allowing 15 minutes for editing is kind of short too....but I do understand that in 15 minutes a lot of posts could be deleted. And even though I don't notice my mispellings, etc. right away...I figure I have been on this Forum long enough for those who think they know me to figure out what I meant even with a error in my posts. If not, and they care enough to really know...they can post and ask about anything they are not understanding, etc. :)
     
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  13. Chrissy Cross

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    True!
     
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    yes.. even 100 minutes..!:rolleyes: :)
     
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