I’ve got a burning question:  Why no edit post button?

So our fuckups are immortalized and can come back to haunt us.

So our fuckups are immortalized and can come back to haunt us.

Dammit, that’s some kind of metaphore for life, isn’t it?

Master_of_puppets on 2/02/06 at 09:36 PM wrote the following… • Permalink

I’ve got a burning question:  Why no edit post button?

Yeah, what he said !  If I can’t find my puter glasses I make too many typos cuz I type so fast and can’t proof read like I normally do… I don’t need anymore metaphors of my life I have enough already.

Edit buttons are for whimps and site admins

More seriously, other sites had major problems with people making substantial edits to their posts after the debate already moved on. Unless you run a site with nothing but friendly users, I wouldn’t want an edit function unless the revision history is preserved and publically visible. Having said that, it’s obviously not my call.

even on my own site if I make a change in the body of a post (as opposed to just adding to the ‘updates’ section at the end) I always include an explanation in the updates.  It seriously screws with a debate to have earlier statements changed after the fact.

Oh wait… The president does that all the time! (I didn’t emphasize WMD’s as the reason for the war, etc.)

I’ve put in a Feature Request on the pMachine forums for this function again and, anticipating Elwed’s concerns, mentioned that it would especially tasty if I could set a time limit on how long the edit option is available. Make it, say, 15 minutes to a half-hour and after that it’s set in stone.

Any way it could flag the message ‘This message has been edited’?  Or shorten the edit time to 5 minutes for basic error correction.  Some of the discussions get rather quick, with comments only a few minutes apart and a half hour would be plenty of time to screw up the integrity of the discussion.

I’m sure those are possibilities. First we have to see if they add the feature at all.

Sorry to revive a thread, but I’ve a burning question:

What is your policy on User reviews?

If a user (such as I) was to submit an entry that was a review, would they be banned for life?

I have no problems with you submitting a review of something. There’s a few examples of that in the archives. Technically, I have a review sub-blog that I’ve never gotten around to opening up to user submissions, but I could do that if there’s interest. Been awhile since I wrote a review myself.

Well I just got my copy of the new Chili Peppers album, so I’d probably be able to make a review in about a week, with your blessing of course.