Edit facility

Just a small suggestion - could the "edit button" be left on for longer than 24 hours? Can it be left on indefinitely?

Thanks,

Montpellier

I don't think it should.

What a peculiar response! I was hoping for one from the administration but...

There's a poster this morning who had hoped to edit an earlier post for musical reasons. Likewise myself thinking about resuscitating an old topic that got messed up, but which would make no sense without editing. And another where I want to edit a musical link. As things are, it's easier to start a new topic.

No further comment. I give no more of a toss than for the price of altering a setting, the site could be a little more convenient for its specific purpose, and might save db space and user time in not having post corrections/extra stuff further down. It might also save the mods time and trouble. Simple.

As you don't exactly seem to post reams of music you probably wouldn't appreciate this.

regards.

Still peculiar.

I mean.......what's detrimental to the community? One's allowed editing up to 24 hours, then it's withdrawn. Why allow editing at all therefore?

Most weird. Like I said, other (musical) sites allow unlimited editing and their communities seem to run quite well - so maybe it's just composition students.

But look, I really don't give a scraggy. I had hoped this site was also about music and it was to ease things up in that respect. If I have to, I'll do more posts, start new topics or write to the mods with edited copies of texts to update.

No more to say.

The question of editing has come up several times, with support both for the current setup and for a prospective removal of the time limit altogether. I've come up with a compromise that I hope will satisfy both camps equally.

It'll work like this: up to 24 hours after you make a post, you can edit it as you see fit and nobody will be able to tell the difference (unless they notice before and after changes, that is). But now, a post edited more than 24 hours after its post date will have the "This post has been edited by" line appended to it, which will hopefully address any issues of broken continuity that may arise, because people will be able to actually tell if a post has been edited long after it was made.

It's in effect from now, so let's see how it goes. As a side note, we were far from unique for keeping a post editing time limit.

Thank you.

Okay, well I like to be mystified, astonished and a variety of things so I will not ask why, nor expect to be apprised of why this lovely little piece of folklore!

As a side note, we were far from unique for keeping a post editing time limit.

You've had a lot more web experience than I no doubt, and I've been cutting back over the past few years. The few forum sites I still look at - all music - have unlimited editing unless they changed it very recently, so it must just be me attracted to sites where the ethos also supports editing!

However, I have no wish to be contentious so I'll erase that comment. It seemed that debate rather than just a suggestion was necessary.

I think that rule should apply to letehn... :P :shifty:

The editing is essential, I believe, for certain types of posts.

I've never seen a point made that's even remotely valid for the disallowing of editing, and the time limit, in my opinion, should go.

I'm a member of a lot of large forums (100,000+ members) that allow unlimited editing. There's never a single problem.

But there seems to a an issue here with the maturity level of certain members. You know, the "he said, she said, but then he said" ect.

Memebrs would say stuff then remove it so it couldn't be proven.

But there seems to a an issue here with the maturity level of certain members. You know, the "he said, she said, but then he said" ect.

Memebrs would say stuff then remove it so it couldn't be proven.

Jeremiah Hong... :glare:

But there seems to a an issue here with the maturity level of certain members. You know, the "he said, she said, but then he said" ect.

Memebrs would say stuff then remove it so it couldn't be proven.

Then wouldn't it cut those arguments down? Besides, if anyone quoted it, it'd be unable to be ammended by anyone but a mod and the person who made the post.

If you have to worry about the edit feature being abused because of the maturity levels of the members, then you have larger problems to attend to and shouldn't be concerned with little things like this.

Thinking back, I suppose we mainly had it in place because it was like that on the old YCC (except the interval was half an hour as opposed to 24 hours). So again, it's probably just one of those things that sort of carried over.