hi guys, there have been a couple of times this past week that i've wanted to edit a thread i posted in another forum, but i was unable. i was just told we're only given 10 minutes to edit our threads. I think it would be nice to have more time to edit? any possibility of that? Ten minutes seems like a verrrry short time period. thanks!

G'day Sheila....nobody else seems that interested...and I can't help....so...I will just say..."hello"...so that it is not a wasted effort coming to this Forum :]

I just 'copy' my old thread, then 'delete' it. Then 'paste' it into a new reply box. Edit away. Woooohoooo?

Now that is smart!!!!

well, thanks for stopping by and for your comments Brian & Brian!!!! I do appreciate the company...was gettin' lonely here! Mr. President, that's a idea for sure, but seems kinda silly to have to delete your thread like that...especially if it was the one that started the entire thread. to have to move it to the bottom would be pretty confusing. what hey, i guess if that's the only way to be able to edit...at least you've given me an option!!! thanks for that. Seriously, would i think it would be awesome to have more time for editing. Unlimited time would be preferable! Any chance of that???? yeah, Tedz, well, i'll give it another day...see if anyone replies....until then...hey...how ya been? see ya back at the ranch!!! :)

Tall Pockets is the President? I am impressed! vote

The coders added the "edit" function because users were complaining that they spotted typos or mistakes right after they hit the "reply" button. I.e. users didn't bother to hit the "preview" button first. So the coders added the "edit" function as a way for users to immediately edit a bad post. The main reason for no delayed edits is that it would cause exactly the kind of confusion you mention. If you post a new topic, then 30 or 40 users add their posts in response, then you change your original post, it would tend to make the other 30 or 40 guys look like idiots who had responded to something you didn't say. It's just as confusing to delete the original post, so the only non-confusing method is to let it stand, unedited.

There are always pros and cons to these issues, but to say it adds confusion is possibly not correct. If the original poster deletes their post then the whole thread becomes irrelevant, it does happen. I have posted on threads where the original question has been deleted so I have in effect answered a question that no one has asked (Now that is confusing to everyone) That does look silly! If the forums were dynamic and a new post put it back to the top of the list that would be more helpful. I do agree that edits can make threads non linier, but it does work on other forums if the thread is bumped to the top.

The Truth is Out There

Ok....I am confused again...so...I shall just leave it for Sheila...as...I don't do Edit ;]

thanks for replying mateo.

Discussions on the internet imply some complications, yeah! Our intranet-system at work is designed to make you start a discussion and not being able to edit any of the comments. And more than once I see here postings crossing each other while still editing parts of the thread. The idea behind is this, namely when discussing with people face to face we cannot edit what we have said; we can only correct it by saying I said this but I meant to say... . Here we can edit our comments in a limited way (we have our moments we just hit the wrong keys) and that can be helpful. But afterwards, when other people have reacted, well, all is said about this here already. Still wanting to edit longer? Copy and paste it into a text-editor (Notepad is finegreat) and when you're ready you hit the edit-button, copy and paste your text from your texteditor and voil there you are. I tend to see discussions as much as the face to face ones and will edit only my text- or html-errors (usually :)

OH LOL... I just found out about the limit myself when trying to add to a post in the Just Me? thread a bit over 10 minutes later... so add my vote to having longer to edit...

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!

jc, good point you bring up about us not being able to edit what we say in face to face dialogue. that's true. i just think that maybe having more time to edit would be nice. 10 minutes doesn't seem long enough. good idea about writing in text editor, then copying and pasting. my problem is sometimes i'll post something, then 20-30 minutes later think i could have said it better and wanna go in and change my wording. if others have already responded, i can just made another reply to say, "I meant to say," or whatever. I've read that body language is like 80% of what people take away from a conversation. we don't have that here. we can just add smiley faces and things like that to try to get that across. so i feel like i have to REALLY think hard before i hit that "post reply" button. anyway, thanks for your suggestions. i still would like to have more time for editing though.