Something else to consider, when you edit a post it doesn't get bumped.

With the thought of having one of the moderators fix a post.

Hmmm, what if you have had a run in with the moderator on
other site's and you don't want to take a chance of doing that
here and letting them do something to make you unwelcome.

I wont give that a chance.

I am very careful with what I will allow someone else to do.

Donna

If you're not comfortable dealing with a moderator, then you can always ask kimmydawn or DocJohn :)

I voted for unlimited. They are our words, after all.

But, on the other hand, do our words become the property of Braintalk2, once posted?

Making a new post to bump the updated thread is not a problem. It's much better than than having disjointed information [data that is split across several posts - or worse yet...several pages!!].

Well, I feel a little better about Swift's case. But, I still don't like it. Wish I could articulate it better, but all I have is that gut feeling of "I don't like it."

very good point zs.

so if posts are being editied to update informationm such as new medical news, how is anyone to know of such new news if an old post is edited?

i can see a lot of good information being lost in old posts. and very important info!

there needs to be some middle ground. i absolutly understand the concerns. the option of having admins or mods edit is still there on what ever time frame is chosen.

I asked for that to be changed - partly because my typing fatigues, and partly because I'm used to taking lectures, I abbreviate a lot...and a while after posting it I realised that CP does have other meanings too.

Swift

Mechanical tasks and brain disorders
 

I favor indefinite changes. To deal with the problem of the possible troublemaker changing their words, it's not beyond reach to hit the "quote" button and preserve a post in the very next post. If someone is going to make trouble, they're going to do it more than once, so missing the first time may not matter. I favor letting the deviant go a few times rather than holding everyone to a time limit.

People with Parkinson's (PWPs) have a similar problem to others, in that if someone goes "off"--meds/chemical costume not working---unpredictably, it might take hours or (sadly) days before a person can type or manage the buttons again.

The simple expedient of typing on another "page" such as a word processing program and then pasting the item to the reply screen is beyond what many a PWP can contemplate and/or fuss with.

Jaye

In our situation, it's a matter of ADDING info to an existing post. Here's a perfect example. Here's the [cached version] Diagnostic Testing Page of The Gluten File. Any one of the those posts could be edited and added to as new information becomes available. We use this concept heavily in organizing the board.

We also tend to develop index threads to popular subjects. As Cara discussed in another post about this, we had an extensive recipe index. Dedicated members will scour the board and gather up all the threads and compile an index thread. When a new recipe, food study, etc has been added, that index is updated with a link to that post.

If anyone feels like the thread needs to be brought to the top of the stack, a BUMP post is made.

I think you can see, that we work very hard at organizing the information we post! Without the extended edit abilities....ughhhh....I'd hate to even think about how the data would look.