Guest painai Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 How long after I've posted something am I able to go back and edit my post? I posted something at 10:14, now at 11:14 I am not able to edit my posting. I noticed a misspelled word and wanted to go back and correct it, but the edit button is no longer there. The edit key was available soon after posting. Just wondering, this has happened before when I wanted to amend a posting. Quote
Guest Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 I think it is set to 45 min or 60 min. Tell me the post and I'll correct for you. Quote
Guest painai Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 In this case, only minor mistake I used to instead of too. No problem. I'll just remember to be careful to proofread anything in the future. Quote
Guest kotter Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 In addition to the delay of 45 plus mins in editing, which I am sure is frustrating to many contributors, who want to correct there mistakes immediately, I also had occasion to write twice to Admin Gay Thailand and whilst it told me the message had been received. No reply! Minor thing but... In this case, only minor mistake I used to instead of too. No problem. I'll just remember to be careful to proofread anything in the future. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 In addition to the delay of 45 plus mins in editing, which I am sure is frustrating to many contributors, who want to correct there mistakes immediately As one who does use the edit button quite a bit since my typing is never great, let me just say that you can edit immediately. Indeed, from the time you post until the cut off time, you can edit as many times as you like. Quote
Guest Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 I also had occasion to write twice to Admin Gay Thailand and whilst it told me the message had been received. No reply! Minor thing but... If you wrote to me ON this message board it has not been since 2006. I just checked my messages and you have not written to me using the forum software. However, if you just sent a message to an e-mail address, then that I don't have a record of. Quote
Guest kotter Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 Well lets put it this way!. I wrote to an email address that was showing, as I believe, said Administrator and I got an email telling me that that it had been received ( with a transcript of the email I sent!) Maybe you should look at the software!!!! I am not in the habit of lying! I certainly would not send anything on the open forum that is private.OK! If you wrote to me ON this message board it has not been since 2006. I just checked my messages and you have not written to me using the forum software. However, if you just sent a message to an e-mail address, then that I don't have a record of. Quote
Rogie Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 Things must have changed: Last year I decided to edit one of my posts, if memory serves a day or so afterwards, and had no problem doing so, and in fact was grateful for that option. This was in response to some negative feedback from another poster (who I'd been trying to help!, so in a fit of pique I deleted my 'unwanted' advice!). I assume this facility remains available, upon request, to a mod. Quote
Guest Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Well lets put it this way!. I wrote to an email address that was showing, as I believe, said Administrator and I got an email telling me that that it had been received ( with a transcript of the email I sent!) Maybe you should look at the software!!!! I am not in the habit of lying! I certainly would not send anything on the open forum that is private.OK! I guess the question that I am asking is did you hit the GayThailand name in the profile and then send it to me? Or, where did you get the address? If by using the Contact Us button on the bottom of the site that is sent to admins who are supposed to answer them. It does NOT go to me. If you want to contact me directly, use the forum. If you want it to go to the programmer who is in India, use another e-mail. I was not accusing you of lying. I was only saying that if you sent something directly to me, I respond to 99.9 percent of all questions asked of me. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 Things must have changed: Last year I decided to edit one of my posts, if memory serves a day or so afterwards, and had no problem doing so, and in fact was grateful for that option. I don't remember this option of late edits being available. And thinking about it, I am not sure it makes much sense, because there may have been several new posts in the interim responding to what was originally written. If the original then changes, the thread might become pretty complicated to follow. Better just to add another post with an amendment. Quote
Rogie Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 I don't remember this option of late edits being available. Whilst I quite agree late edits are almost always not a good idea for the reasons you mention, I was glad to make use if it in the case I referred to - to put it politely, with the benefit of hindsight, the other poster involved was a time waster. Erection i cant get fully - GayThailand Forum - Page 2 As a matter of courtesy I made sure my original post was clearly labelled as having been edited. Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted July 21, 2010 Posted July 21, 2010 It seems reasonable to me that a post should be able to be edited until a reply has been made. After a reply has been posted them it should be un-editable. (if there is such a word) Quote
Gaybutton Posted July 21, 2010 Posted July 21, 2010 It seems reasonable to me that a post should be able to be edited until a reply has been made. I think that is a reasonable idea too, although I don't know how much of a software modification would be necessary or whether it can be done that way at all. However, I can see a few problems associated with it. If it is possible to do, I would set the editing time limit to two or three hours or after a reply has been submitted, whichever comes first. I would also allow an editing time of at least one hour even after a reply has been submitted because quite often a reply is made virtually immediately, which would mean the post can't be edited at all. I think a time limit of at least one hour is reasonable because quite often people have second thoughts about what they said, the way they said it, or they think of ways they want to add to or otherwise improve their post. Sometimes they decide they want their post removed entirely. I think they should have a reasonable amount of time to be able to do that whether their post has been replied to or not. The only other problem I can see is unless a post is edited almost immediately, a lot of people who had already read the post as originally submitted will never see that it has been edited. It won't show up as a new post, even with use of the 'View New Content' feature. Maybe that can be modified somehow too, but I can also see problems if that is done. I also think simply proofreading, carefully, both before submitting the post and again immediately after would solve most of the problems. Use of a spell checker wouldn't hurt either. Quote
Guest Posted July 21, 2010 Posted July 21, 2010 OK. I have moved the edit post to 60 minutes. I can't do anything about allowing an edit as long as someone has not replied without paying someone to modify the code which I can't do right now. But, I hope the extra time gives people more time to do what they need to do without compromising the integrity of the thread. Quote
