Do you think the message editing time limit should be increased?

[Another Iori]

I haven't decided on a specific time frame yet, but feel free to drop your suggestions in the comments.

 

[BrawlMan]

Yes. I assume it only stays for one hour, but an edit should at least be given a full day after posting. Grammar and spelling mistakes do happen, and should be allowed longer time to be fixed. Most other places let you edit with unlimited time, but I get why the rules are different here. Especially if a user is acting like a troll or has a habit of starting trouble or not adding to the discussion at large. That way they can't hiding anything, nor deny it.

 

[Shadow501]

Text editing is not supposed to end within an hour or a day, so what's the problem with making it continuous and never-ending?

 

[Glimbo]

Text editing is not supposed to end within an hour or a day, so what's the problem with making it continuous and never-ending?

It's there to prevent the forums from becoming nonsensical if multiple users mass delete their posts (I've seen this happen when the time limit was not in place). Also, to prevent malicious changes to old posts.

To preserve discussions and avoid vandalism there's a 1 hour window to edit or delete your post.

 

[PupinDaTurd]

Yeah it should be infinite.
I'm one of those people that writes and rewrites and edits and re-edits a post for clarity, to rearrange points and sentences, and to further explain something or whatever. There's been more than a few times I've come back to a post and thought it could really benefit from phrasing this or that differently and not been able to at all.

I guess you could just double post and then edit the merge, but there's a limit to when posts will merge too. That I'm thankful for, the Random Game Challenge thread would be Hell without that.

Anyways, what's the worst case scenario here? I write something and Glimbo says "Yeah, I agree", then what? I surreptitiously wait a month then stealth edit to to say "I think women shouldn't vote." and then we both look bad? So what? Just slap an "Edited on: DATE" tag to them and anyone can see it got changed afterwards. If you use the Reply function it quotes what you're replying too as well, and that doesn't change when a post is edited does it?

 

[Retro Doomer]

Yes. I assume it only stays for one hour, but an edit should at least be given a full day after posting. Grammar and spelling mistakes do happen, and should be allowed longer time to be fixed. Most other places let you edit with unlimited time, but I get why the rules are different here. Especially if a user is acting like a troll or has a habit of starting trouble or not adding to the discussion at large. That way they can't hiding anything, nor deny it.

When I troll I do so proudly and openly why hide it

What I detest more is when I do grammatical errors which I tend to do often like a curse and it annoys the hell out of me to not being able to edit them out.

Also laste sentence sounded like we are in court unable to hide it or deny it so are you pleading guilty

;) ;) but well for me there two kinds of trolling the one I do for some giggles harmless jokes and acting and the one that is bad like provoking extremely with less than well appropriate stuff on here which I witnessed the later luckily seems to vanish quickly as to not cause a mass panic on here.


And to get to my short and smooth answer..Yes Absolutely the time to edit your stuff should be increased maybe a day I would say even if I can understand if its limited as its a pest to have to screenshot every damn conversation as people tend to edit their posts and spin the conversation around afterwards,happened to me to often which made me look like a idiot on other sites.

 

[bjork]

Anyways, what's the worst case scenario here?

Undue attention to the board, people editing in bad links to unsavory sites, people editing in images of gnarly stuff, and so on. There's all kinds of things people can do. Which, they could do it in a new post as well, but it's more likely to get sniffed out in a new post.

[EDIT ho ho ho: I feel that the hour is time enough to collect your thoughts properly. If someone can't articulate a thing in that amount of time, is their idea concrete enough to merit being posted in the first place? Even with the writing applications, I'd rather see someone have multiple posts as they work through editing their work and improving their final result. ]

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What I detest more is when I do grammatical errors which I tend to do often like a curse and it annoys the hell out of me to not being able to edit them out.

Good on you for being consciously aware of it, but maybe reread a post before throwing it up? The world isn't sitting on pins and needles waiting for any of our posts the very next second.

Also: I'm not saying you specifically, but a thing I've noticed around here is people who are apparently incapable of using commas and periods, rendering their posts into unreadable garbage. I'd take 10,000 spelling errors per post over a lack of punctuation, at least I can follow what someone's trying to say if it isn't seventeen sentences combined into one long run-on.

 

[DayBreak_Illusion]

I've noticed around here is people who are apparently incapable of using commas and periods, rendering their posts into unreadable garbage. I'd take 10,000 spelling errors per post over a lack of punctuation, at least I can follow what someone's trying to say if it isn't seventeen sentences combined into one long run-on.

More or less English isnt there first language lad. If you can't read a sentence without proper punctuation, seems more of a you problem.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

On top of what @bjork has already said, we are aware of at least a few instances of messages being charged completely/deleted after the fact to turn conversations into completely nonsensical, missing messes... It's like listening to only one voice in a two-person podcast and wondering why the hell it isn't making any sense at all.

Do all of you do it? Absolutely not.

Did enough people do it? ... Yes.

But if you need messges edited past the time limit, just DM a mod! It's kind of our job.

Cheers

 

[Graw]

A time limit's a good idea but the current one feels too short. I'm not sure exactly what it is now but this forum doesn't really move fast enough most of the time to warrant such a small edit window. A lot of threads take days to get replies. I could understand such a short edit window on fast moving forums but this forum doesn't really seem to need it outside maybe some of those offtopic threads that seem to get heated kind of quickly.

 

[bjork]

More or less English isnt there first language lad. If you can't read a sentence without proper punctuation, seems more of a you problem.

Not in the instances I'm referring to, but I'm not naming names. Also, I managed to read yours with its errors, so I think I get by okay. It would just be nice to get by a little bit easier, is all.

 

[Zerpina]

Maybe a couple of hours would be better....

But I don't know if that would really make or break it for people. As for the people who can't use periods and such, as stated above, English probably isn't their first and most well known language. English is hard when you don't natively speak it. Hell, I know people who are American and still can't speak it properly, let alone type it. We are all guilty of typos, bad punctuation.... and the like, but as long as any of us have been on the internet, surely we are all fluent in Typonese....

Let's not be grammar Nazis now.

 

[bjork]

Again, I'm not referring to folks who aren't fluent. My stance on it isn't really up for debate; I can understand people better when they take two seconds to edit a post. I'm not asking anyone else to agree with me, thanks.

 

[Clippy]

Eh, I think it's one of those things where you simply can't win. It doesn't matter what kind of time limit is imposed, someone will be unhappy about it not being long enough and we can't have no limit at all for reasons others have already mentioned. I'd say an hour is a decent enough compromise.

 

[PupinDaTurd]

Undue attention to the board

Editing my typos a day later creates "undue attention to the board"?
Puhleez. With reddit threads asking about this place, YouTube vids on emulator setups cheekily mentioning it and it being a child of another already well known and respected ROM site I can't imagine how you think this is the bridge too far.
No headlines are going up on CNET because of an edited post here.

people editing in bad links to unsavory sites

Nothing stops them doing that in their original posts either. This falls under the purview of good net hygiene and self accountability. No one should be clicking links unless they're to well known and trusted URLs and/or by known high level posters who share news.

people editing in images of gnarly stuff, and so on. There's all kinds of things people can do. Which, they could do it in a new post as well, but it's more likely to get sniffed out in a new post.

The poor guy who scrolled across an edited in Goatse on page 67 of a long thread has my sympathy and the same duty as someone who loads new replies and see it.
Like you admit, these offenses are just as possible fresh as edited. As well as that, in a fast thread an hour is long enough to do one of these nasty things and have it be buried a few pages back already if it's not being swiftly handled by the community and moderation.

Just because something bad could be done with something is not a good reason. If we extrapolate that back to its ultimate origin; because any of those bad things could be done on a forum in the first place then we may as well not have one. Too much risk!

The rest of your post is subjective. If an hour's more than long enough for you, good. It's not for me.
Even now I re-read my last post and there's two typos I really would like to fix and can't. Is that a huge deal? Not really. Me, personally, I have no atypical neurological condition that's torturing me because I used the wrong "to". But someone else might and there's so far no real sound reasoning as to why we can't.

 

[bjork]

there's so far no real sound reasoning as to why we can't.

The reason of "someone runs this forum and that's what they decided" should be all you need. If they decided to set it to two hours or two days, that's what it would be. As for the rest of what you said, all I can say is okay? I don't agree with you and didn't ask you to agree with me.

 

[PupinDaTurd]

"I wasn't arguing I was just giving counter points and presenting my contrasting opinions of the subject of discussion."

Lol
OK brother. Thank you.

 

[bjork]

"I wasn't arguing I was just giving counter points and presenting my contrasting opinions of the subject of discussion."

Lol
OK brother. Thank you.

You asked a question, I gave my answer, then you said no. Not much else to be said, I don't think.

 

[PupinDaTurd]

Thank you. Enough is said then.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

I wouldn't mind the time being extended a little bit. Sometimes I come back to a post I made just a little bit to late and see an error I'd like to fix. Definitely shouldn't be infinite though.

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If you use the Reply function it quotes what you're replying too as well, and that doesn't change when a post is edited does it?

It doesn't, I've had people quote my typo before I fixed it and it stayed the same.

Also I can imagine if posts had an infinite edit timer it would get more difficult to moderate this place, since now that's even more posts that have to be reviewed.