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Should we be able to edit our own posts?
Posted by zakman • 5/09/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: changes, clarification, comments, edit, Posts, reply, typos
You know we make the posts, and later we may feel a need to edit it in some way -- either for typos, or additional information, or clarification or maybe even delete the comment/reply/post.
Any editing done this way could have a note to say "Post edited by author on: DATE/TIME"
This will eliminate the need to add a reply to one's own post to do the changes mentioned above.
And of course only the author of the post will have the rights to edit his or her post.
What do you folks think?
User Comments
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good idea, i'm definitely not against that, i think it would be a good idea. the only thing i'd be a little more concerned is if someone posts something, people comment and reply, then the person changes the 1st post, the one that started the discussion... i think to prevent spam it would be better not to enable that, though the community seems really really respectful and i doubt that would happen, but hey never know, up to you guyz (BC folks) to decide
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We are working on the ability for you to edit your own posts. It will most likely be set up so that you only have a certain amount of time after you make your post to make any changes. -
I'd like to be able to edit my comments. In addition to the time limit, you may want to disable changes once someone has replied to the comment.(If they reply within the amount of time designated to change/edit) -
Yeah, definetly - editing one's own post is a general feature which almost all communities/forums have..
I'm suprised why we don't have this feature in here. -
Yes!! Especially after I couldn't spell "extensions" in my latest post! How dumb do I feel at the moment?-
lol... Steve you don't have to feel dumb - NO ONE knos how to spell 'extensions' (or is it 'extentions') .... or maybe 'ekstentions'?
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haha. nice one zakman. just need a few people to read my post and i won't feel so dumb anymore....
--http://www.cymru66.com/uncategorized/my-five-favorite-firefox-add-ons/
time to get some sleep now. catch up on here tomorrow! -
Just another thing here.... Yahoo! Answers does allow editing to the extent of adding more info to the original post
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Yes that's a great idea! I think that would be a really useful feature. -
Yes....good idea. I was also wondering if we could delete it! -
I support this idea.
Although, naturally, I very rarely make any mitakks. -
CURSES!
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god yes. i cant believe there is no edit button. how can that be? when one blogs, one needs an edit button. (lol) -
I am making a lot of typos which doesn't represent me at all.. I have been typing a lot of Ooops lately.. yes definitly an edit button -
Actually, most of the typos don't matter, accd to a research by Carnegie Mellon -- if you have the first and the last letters of a word in their right place, the word is comprehensible.
Try the following:
"Hlelo, ferind. How are you dinog tdaoy. Taht is a vrey ncie siut you hvae on. Are you ginog to a dnace? Is the wfie ginog wtih you? Well eojny yuorslef wihle you're trehe. Gdoboye."
All the words are typos. But you were still able to read and understand, perhaps even without realizing there are mistakes in the spelling, right?
Accd to Carnegie Mellon, the brain makes some kind of natural associations with words.
So to hcek wtih the sepllnig! Let's all get tpyo hppay! -
Zakman,
I have no problem at all with making later changes "for typos, or additional information or clarification". But today I did something totally different.
I added a link to a relevant post by someone else, months after I had written my original post. My thinking was that had I known about that person's post at the time I had written my own article, I most certainly would have created the link back then.
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