edit and delete own posts?

chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:00 am

why are these options disabled? i want to be do these, i used to be able to, bring em back!

Chris x

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:26 am

They've been disabled in most public forums for at least as long as I've been using the Forest bb.

chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:32 am

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:02 pm

I have no idea.

If you read my post, it says it's been that way as long as I've been here, and thus I didn't know it was any different. I posted because your post implied the ability had vanished recently, when I don't think it has.

You can still edit your posts in some forums (FWG? maybe). Maybe milk/duncan/swith can clarify?

chris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:13 pm

definitely used to be able to. probably it is just a click away for an admin to return that power.

milk · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:05 pm

*shrugs*

i don't rememer any change.. possibly we should enable it? but i'd be for turning it off again the second some twat uses it to change what they've said half-way through a debate to make another look bad. i'd like to think that wouldn't happen, but you do get all sorts on the BB..

chris · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:14 pm

milk wrote:

some twat uses it to change what they've said half-way through a debate to make another look bad. i'd like to think that wouldn't happen, but you do get all sorts on the BB..

yeah, thats a pretty low thing to do, (although normally the post will say it has been edited, so that doesnt really work). Editing posts is really helpful, if you see something you wrote is unclear, or you post the wrong link or whatever.

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:07 pm

I agree with chris.

Another forum I'm on allows you to edit your posts for up to 30 minutes after you post them and then they become static. Maybe we could implement something like that here?

thehemulen · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:12 pm

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Another forum I'm on allows you to edit your posts for up to 30 minutes after you post them and then they become static.

thats really clever. we should enable that iff possible. cause i take Milks point about doctoring the past...
you initial spelling error was intentional then Chris?

swithun · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 am **Posts:** 2449

I've set editing/deleting time to 30 minutes. Use it wisely.

milk · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:58 pm

thankin thee!

chris · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:02 pm

I still can't edit. and see no need for a time delay...

swithun · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 am **Posts:** 2449

Don't worry - I can still edit your posts.

You don't have an edit button for 30 minutes after you posted a message? Does anyone else have this problem?

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:06 pm

Testing

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:07 pm

Nope, no edit button for me either.

swithun · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 am **Posts:** 2449

Apart from an embarrassing moment when everybody could edit everyone else, I haven't been able to work out why. There seem to be several ways to set permissions for groups, and I can't have set them all everywhere.

chris · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:35 am

swithun · **Joined:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:24 am **Posts:** 2449

I think you should be able to edit/delete posts now. What a clickathon that was.

ChaoticReality · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:13 pm

Test

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