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edit and delete own posts?

Post by chris » 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!

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Post by ChaoticReality » 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.
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Post by chris » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:32 am

why?
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Post by ChaoticReality » 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?
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Post by chris » 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.
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Post by milk » 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..
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Post by chris » 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.
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Post by ChaoticReality » 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?
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Post by thehemulen » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:12 pm

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?
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Post by swithun » Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:24 pm

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

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Post by milk » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:58 pm

thankin thee!
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Post by chris » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:02 pm

I still can't edit. and see no need for a time delay...
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Post by swithun » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:28 pm

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?

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Post by ChaoticReality » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:06 pm

Testing
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Post by ChaoticReality » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:07 pm

Nope, no edit button for me either.
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Post by swithun » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:05 pm

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.

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Post by chris » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:35 am

hmmm
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Re: edit and delete own posts?

Post by swithun » Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:26 pm

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

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Post by ChaoticReality » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:13 pm

Test

Success!
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