There are times when, having posted a oomment, I come back to it a day later and wish to edit it. especially if I feel I have not done the arrtist justice.

So, might we ask for a "post-edit" button?

+1

Are we talking about comments in the gallery or comments in the forums? I'm all for the former. I think the latter may cause problems.

In the gallery. I have occasionally deleted a comment and then written a new one. In the forums - one would sometimes like to retract a comment ...

I can see many good reasons for having a time limit on the ability to edit forum posts. Simple corrections, fair enough but anything that substantially alters a comment - or allows the poster to remove it - are a bad idea, IMO. I've seen it abused on other forums, and, from an admin POV, it can cause all kinds of headaches.

Any retractions to a forum post can be added in a subsequent post at a later time, anyhow. Best bet is to think before you post, or at least be prepared to stand by what you posted in the first place.

I'm agreeing with Sam here. To allow limitless edits, one needs a forum system that lets you know that a message has been edited, and preferably one that allows you to see the edit history. And THAT might be too complicated to implement here.

One thing that I WOULD love if they fixed in the forums though would be the "enters"/text lines. You hit enter once, it behaves like you never hit it any times. You hit it twice, it gives you a paragraph. You hit it three times, it gives you a paragraph. Too often you want to list things closer together, or give things more space, and you can't.

Like, if I list:

it becomes:

1- one 2- two 3- three

Yep, agreed with Ohki on the text input/display thing here. It's absolute bobbins and has been for a long time. I'd like to see the text behave in the way you'd expect, ie, as it shows when you actually type it in, so that lists are lists, paragraphs are paragraphs, hard returns behave themselves and so on.

Edited to add...

A long standing gripe of mine is the lack of double spaces after a full stop (or period, for you US types). I always use them - and I am a qualified typist to RSA standards, so I do know what I'm on about here - but the chuffing forum always edits 'em out. Please, please, pretty please with sugar on, add that to the list.

SamTherapy posted at 10:00AM Tue, 15 October 2019 - #4367159

A long standing gripe of mine is the lack of double spaces after a full stop (or period, for you US types). I always use them - and I am a qualified typist to RSA standards, so I do know what I'm on about here - but the chuffing forum always edits 'em out. Please, please, pretty please with sugar on, add that to the list.

I do this as well, as I worked for a large law firm for 40 years, and that was the standard in the legal profession here in the US, or at least here in NY. I have friends outside the legal profession who never understood why I do that, especially on online forums. ~shrugs~

i know that in the galleries, i can literally edit a comment that i've made on an image from 2001 [i just checked]... if we're talking wanting this to also be a thing in a forum [ok, maybe not that far back], i must agree about voting that as a 'no', even if 'edit history' was available. there are times when stuff in the forums becomes way too volatile, and editing posts, i think/feel, could be just another thing that could have the potential to exacerbate an already negative situation...