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[goingthedistance]

Just wondering if the AS team have ever considered changing the "this post was edited at xxxx" message to be something that shows up on a post only if it's been at least say 5 minutes since the original post. It makes many threads look messy having so many edit notifications for people that are 95% of the time correcting a typo. For myself whenever I use my iPad or phone it's constantly autocorrecting (often a good thing, but not always) or I tap the wrong key because the keyboard is so small so I feel like I'm having to go back and correct the darn thing half the time. I have tried to train myself to check but I confess to be a tad lazy about it on here. I don't think I'm the only one!

Many forums I use only publicly log the notification if it's been longer than a set period to catch people who have genuinely changed the content of what they are saying. Perhaps your software doesn't allow this? Or is it a procedural choice? I'd be interested to know if I'm the only one anally retentive enough to care?

[Vitesse2]

The short answer is - no, the software doesn't allow what you're asking for.

 

We can set a maximum time limit on how long a post can be edited for; that was done for a while some years ago, but reversed after complaints (IIRC). But as far as the 'edited by' text goes all we can do is toggle a setting called 'Allow user to remove 'Edited by' legend?' between yes and no. Which would mean that posters could silently edit their own posts ...

 

Previous discussion: Editable posts

[goingthedistance]

Thank you for the response. Sounds like it's out of your hands. It's not a big deal just a minor bugbear that's been there over the years and I was curious to know if it was by choice or forced by software.

And the irony is I needed to edit this post...

Edited by goingthedistance, 25 March 2017 - 15:51.

[Zmeej]

Am among those who found time limits on editing very annoying, and thus very glad when they were lifted.

 

Loathe auto-correct features of all kinds.

 

Find the edit notification very helpful, in that it lets folks know that a post has been modified. Often comes in handy in a more in-depth exchange when interlocutors are taking their time to compose and revise their posts.

 

Also, good for moments when one returns to a thread ready to launch Pershing missiles, but then finds that the offending passage has been excised. It's reassuring to know that one did not hallucinate the insulting stuff, and also that the individual in question was gracious enough to tone things down.

[SophieB]

As a fellow crack handed typist, I support the wish for having a brief window to edit broken quotes etc but whatever.

[YoungGun]

Am among those who found time limits on editing very annoying, and thus very glad when they were lifted.

 

Loathe auto-correct features of all kinds.

 

Find the edit notification very helpful, in that it lets folks know that a post has been modified. Often comes in handy in a more in-depth exchange when interlocutors are taking their time to compose and revise their posts.

 

Also, good for moments when one returns to a thread ready to launch Pershing missiles, but then finds that the offending passage has been excised. It's reassuring to know that one did not hallucinate the insulting stuff, and also that the individual in question was gracious enough to tone things down.

 

So in real life when your communicating with someone, 3 hours later you call back to state you changed your position on a subject? Or were you calling back to say, you meant "there" not "their"? 

[milestone 11]

As a fellow crack handed typist, I support the wish for having a brief window to edit broken quotes etc but whatever.

Needs editing I think.

[SophieB]

Goddammit, autocorrect - you have bested me again.

[Gretsch]

In the ideal world, meaning in the systems I build, information that is being read the first time (by someone other than the author) is being marked as "read". If it is edited before being read, it does not show up signalling it has been edited. 
 

[Brackets]

In the ideal world, meaning in the systems I build, information that is being read the first time (by someone other than the author) is being marked as "read". If it is edited before being read, it does not show up signalling it has been edited. 
 

Person B, who responded to the unedited message from person A, then gets in a quarrel with person C, who has -unknowingly- only read the edited message from Person A, and has therefore no idea what person B is gibbering about.

 

Unless you meant 'not read by anyone'. In which case I think you're underestemating the traffic on this forum .

 

As a serial editer of my works of art typo-overloaded posts, I kinda don't like the footnote myself, but there is no 'clean' solution. Unless of course it would be possible to retain the editing history. Now that'd be kewl…

 

 

 

(It should be here any minute now: )

Edited by Brackets, 27 March 2017 - 16:15.

[Gretsch]

 

 

Unless you meant 'not read by anyone'. In which case I think you're underestemating the traffic on this forum .

 

 

Not viewed by anyone but the author. It will always have been viewed by the author. 

[Zmeej]

YG

 

So in real life ... ?

 

This forum is part of real life.

Edited by Zmeej, 27 March 2017 - 19:16.