Reason For Edit

[Mossfinn]

As the question states, or can anybody do it? If so How?

Good Luck

Moss

[endure]

Users can edit their posts for a short time (10 minutes?) after they post them. After that time they lose the ability to edit. Mods can edit all posts all the time. I believe it was set up this way to stop some of our more 'imaginative' members from altering the meaning of their posts after having been replied to.

Edited April 10, 2007 by endure
Edited for missing word and spelling

[Tywais]

Users can edit their posts for a short time (10 minutes?) after they post them. After that time they lose ability to edit. Mods can edit all posts all the time. I believe it was set up this way to stop some of our more 'imaginative' members from altering the meaning of their posts after having been replied too.

Also, the Reason For Edit box is only available to mod to simplify and make obvious the reason a member's post may have been edited. For members you can just add something like //Edit - reason for edit.

Edited April 10, 2007 by tywais
Just for example purposes

[Mid]

are posts ever edited , by mods , without a reason being displayed ?

[kayo]

only yours mid!

I think the leeway is somewhere between 15/20 minutes for users to edit.

[Wolfie]

are posts ever edited , by mods , without a reason being displayed ?

Theoretically its possible, but we generally leave a /edit comment saying what/why we edited the post

[dantilley]

10 minutes?

Think it's 30 minutes actually, Geroge said once before when someone asked.

[Ijustwannateach]

are posts ever edited , by mods , without a reason being displayed ?

Theoretically its possible, but we generally leave a /edit comment saying what/why we edited the post

Yes, or PM the user offering an explanation.

[Grover]

10 minutes?

Think it's 30 minutes actually, Geroge said once before when someone asked.

yes, its 30 minutes.

[Old Croc]

Do mods ever just delete large chunks of a post without

[sbk]

Do mods ever just delete large chunks of a post without

No, we never do that kin............. nforming the poster by add ........ edited by ...... name

[PeaceBlondie]

Occasionally, when the title has an obvious misspelling, I'll correct it without saying so. If you spell the country Camdodia we needn't remind everybody of the error. Once I corrected the word Were to Where when it was the first word in the sentence, ending with a question mark, and I didn't say that it was originally wrong.

We would never maliciously alter the obvious intent of a post. We might delete something that violates forum rules, but we'd say that we had edited it.

OTOH - not to change the subject - we delete entire posts sometimes, if they're in flagrant violation of the rules, and we might not say we did so. Also, duplicate posts are deleted without comment by some of us, just to keep the forum threads cleaner.