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| Registered: May 8, 2007 |  Posts: 823 |
| | Posted: | | | | Most forum software today has a configurable edit window for marking posts as edited. If it's set to five minutes, for example, that means that any edits a user makes to their posts won't publicly show that the post has been edited for five minutes after the post is made. This allows a window for correcting typos. Currently on Invelos, forum posts are marked as edited regardless of when the edit was made. This means that if I notice one mistake in my post that I missed when I proofread it, the post gets marked as edited, even if I notice the typo seconds after I post. It's EXTREMELY annoying and it would be nice if this could be fixed.  | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,216 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,310 |
| | Posted: | | | | this particular one don't bother me either way. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
It's EXTREMELY annoying and it would be nice if this could be fixed. I do not understand this request AT ALL, edit is edit, isn't it, regardless whether you change content after 4 minutes or correct orthography 6 minutes later. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah... this is a head scratcher for me too. So what if it says the post has been edited? Why is that even a concern?
Also, I'm pretty sure there's a timestamp on it, so if you edit it within a couple of minutes of posting people will know that it was a near-immediate edit, since the original posting time remains intact.
edit: As you can see, below it says this was edited at 8:09 AM, but above it says 8:07 AM, since that was the original time of my post. | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS!
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,198 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yea, I don't get it either... | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,481 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Astrakan: Quote:
Yeah... this is a head scratcher for me too. So what if it says the post has been edited? Why is that even a concern?
Also, I'm pretty sure there's a timestamp on it, so if you edit it within a couple of minutes of posting people will know that it was a near-immediate edit, since the original posting time remains intact.
edit: As you can see, below it says this was edited at 8:09 AM, but above it says 8:07 AM, since that was the original time of my post. ah you just gave away your location.. three hours to the east or Ontario probably.. as your postings here say 8:09 am but my edit notes for your edit show 5:09 am ..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 823 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbbb: Quote:
Quoting Grendell:
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It's EXTREMELY annoying and it would be nice if this could be fixed.
I do not understand this request AT ALL, edit is edit, isn't it, regardless whether you change content after 4 minutes or correct orthography 6 minutes later. And I don't understand this response AT ALL. If you don't agree or care about my request, then just hit the back button, don't reply, and let the thread die. You get what you want, and you avoid trolling up a fellow user's thread with needless and unprovoked hostility. | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 823 |
| | Posted: | | | | Some people are just bothered at having their post marked as edited. Others obviously aren't. This should be an extremely easy thing to set in the forum software. If it isn't an issue, then how come so many forums are configured to have a window where user edited posts don't get marked as edited? | | | | 99.9% of all cat plans consist only of "Step 1." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
And I don't understand this response AT ALL. If you don't agree or care about my request, then just hit the back button, don't reply, and let the thread die. You get what you want, and you avoid trolling up a fellow user's thread with needless and unprovoked hostility. To be fair, that's how it works. You throw out an idea and people discuss it. If you don't want people discussing it, send it directly to Invelos as a support ticket or something. If you only want those who agree to respond, well... That ain't gonna happen. Ken is a limited resource. As users, we all get an equal say in how we would like to see that time best used. Having a large group of people say they don't want to see time wasted on something they consider useless is unfortunately a reality. Ken can then read this thread, read the replies (both pro and con) and run with it from there. With that said, I'm on the "I don't get it" side. I understand the request. Just not the need. But if Ken decides this is something worth spending time on, I'm fine with that too. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,310 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree... I was just about to post the same basic thing. Put something up on the forum... all users if they agree or not has just as much right to reply in the thread to give their opinion on the idea. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
Some people are just bothered at having their post marked as edited. Others obviously aren't. This should be an extremely easy thing to set in the forum software. If it isn't an issue, then how come so many forums are configured to have a window where user edited posts don't get marked as edited? Well, first off, I'm simply curious why it bothers you. I can't think of a single reason why it should. Aesthetics, maybe? Or is it just one of those anal retentive things? I'm not trying to get a dig in, I have my own fair share of those issues (as I'm sure many of us do, considering where we're posting this...  ) But also, it may not be a simple of a fix as you think it is. I'm pretty sure this entire forum is custom coded by Invelos, considering how integrated it is with the DVD contribution process. It's certainly not phpBB nor is it vBulletin. | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS!
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You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. | | | | Last edited: by Astrakan |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Grendell: Quote:
It's EXTREMELY annoying and it would be nice if this could be fixed. I agree with you. As a French user, it happens very often that I make spelling mistakes in English that I see too late. So I have to edit my post to change, for instance, "then" to" than", and it is not a real "edit". | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,310 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not a real edit? I don't know... in my mind an edit is and edit... is an edit. Don't see where what has been edited... or how long since the original post makes a difference. But I guess that is me. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't see why anyone could give a crap about if you've edited a post or not. Pointless request IMO. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,916 |
| | Posted: | | | | I haven't seen any forums that give an edit grace period. That said, I personally don't see much point to it.
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