[DocJohn]

You can edit any post you'd like within 15 minutes of making it. If that time needs to be set longer, that's fine, let me know what works for you.

Thanks,
John

[Mari]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

You can edit any post you'd like within 15 minutes of making it. If that time needs to be set longer, that's fine, let me know what works for you.

Thanks,
John

Hi DocJohn,
How about 24 hours?

Mari

[mrsD]

at my age these things spook me!

I am like jcc... I often think of stuff to add, fix spelling, or grammar,
within an 1 or so. Sometimes my typing is rather embarrassing! Esp in the morning

Anything like an hour is fine with me. Too long and it might lead to
"other" admin issues, I think.

[swift]

Originally Posted by mrsd

at my age these things spook me!

I am like jcc... I often think of stuff to add, fix spelling, or grammar,
within an 1 or so. Sometimes my typing is rather embarrassing! Esp in the morning

Anything like an hour is fine with me. Too long and it might lead to
"other" admin issues, I think.

An hour is good for those of us who sometimes have physically related typing issues too in terms of post edits - 15 minutes wouldn't be long enough for me on a bad day. Agreed re: not wanting it to lead to other admin issues.

Swift

[DocJohn]

I've gone ahead and set it for 90 minutes now, let's see how that works for most people.....

[jccgf]

Oh .

90 minutes is a big improvement over 15, and might be enough to cover most of my typos, but I regularly update, add, correct posts beyond that...primarily for the purpose of organizing data.

My vote would be to have edit capability that is indefinite.

What are some of the pros and cons people see?

Cara

[Wittesea]

Just a reminder....

If there is something in your post that must be edited after 90 minutes have passed, you can contact the moderator/s for your forum and ask him/her to edit the post for you.

So, even with a time limit, it is still possible to have something edited if it is absolutely necessary.

[DocJohn]

The cons of unlimited edits is that it allows others to "change history" in a thread they've contributed to. So, for instance, if there's a whole discussion that turns into a heated debate or something where a member crosses the line into flaming, they can go back and edit it to make look like they didn't cross any line. It's very easy to abuse such functionality if left to an "indefinite" period of time. I know for 99% of members, that would never be an issue... but in my experience, that small 1% of members can really cause havoc if they want to by completely changing what they said in a post to make it look like they did nothing wrong.

So I'm happy to have it set for a period of time where it suits most people's needs to edit and organize, but my preference is that it is closer to the minutes category rather than the hours.

John

[Thelma]

I see if it is longer people can go back after other posts have come in and change in such a way that the original has an entirely different meaning.

In some cases that is not goog

[Thelma]

I see if it is longer people can go back after other posts have come in and change in such a way that the original has an entirely different meaning.

In some cases that is not good