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The one hour time limit on edits...
Although the new site is growing on me, I do find the one hour time limit on edits to be a little restrictive, especially when you are trying to add rolling information to a post. I was recently replying to a post regarding my Windows updates, and ended up having to post three times in the course of a little over two hours because I couldn't edit the first reply to revise the info as it was changing.
I fully understand not being able to edit a post once someone has either replied to it or replied to another on the thread, but until someone has done so shouldn't we be able to edit our post?
I'm specifically referring to my three successive posts on page two of the following thread (Friday, early evening). I could simply have added the successive info to my first reply to BirdDog's post.
Hi GabeU,
Thanks for posting. Let's try out an unlimited time to edit your own posts. At the very least, if there's any question about what was initially posted, the mods can see the edit history for everything.
While I agree that the one hour limit ... limits one the a single hour .... it pales to the fact that posting a reply that has more content than text butchers the reply to the point where the reply is useless.
I think I understand what you are saying.
Gwalk900 wrote:While I agree that the one hour limit ... limits one the a single hour .... it pales to the fact that posting a reply that has more content than text butchers the reply to the point where the reply is useless.
Disregard my last reply. After reading another post, I now understand that there are issues with posting non text content right now. I haven't experienced any, but I haven't tried to post anything other than text today.
I originally thought you were referring to threads that got off topic.
I was just venting. Miffed at losing long posts.
No limit on how long the posts can be. Sure need the edit capacity to remove the trashed and garbled replies related to graphics that get trashed.
