This subject may have been covered already, if so, sorry for the redundancy but I noticed some posts in the past such as three years ago that I'd like to amend or delete out some of the content. I noticed there is not an edit button on the post page of the thread after signing in for me to do this to an older post of mine that at certain times I feel should to be changed. Jim
Have you changed your profile or password at at any time? If yes, you'll need to log off and log back on with your old identity to edit them.
My settings have not changed on this end. The more recent posts I've made I can go back in and edit after logging in but cannot do the same procedure for an older post as then I do not get an edit button to make some of the changes I'd like to make to them. Michael, sometime see if you can edit one of your older posts in this forum. If you can edit a post you made a few years ago then the problem or the issue probably is on my end but as of now I do not believe that to be the case. I tried using Mozilla first when I noticed I could not edit an old post this morning and tried again just now using the current version of Firefox and it does the same thing for me, no edit button. When I made this second post in this thread there was an Edit button showing right where it should be for the first post. Might be a time factor involved in which a post can be edited. Jim
there's a timeframe attached to being able to edit your posts - i'm not sure how long the ability to do so is there - 24 hours i think.
I've felt for a while there was a timeframe involved in order to edit a post. Perhaps we may learn how long it is for this forum host. I feel it is more of a software issue as some other forum hosts can have posts edited by the poster, but cannot be deleted out without access to administrator tools, for seemingly longer periods of time. Jim
the time limit for ability to edit is set by the admin and can be anywhere from a couple of minutes to a week. other types of software have no limit on editing posts.
I can still edit one from 2 months ago. Finding older posts to experiment on is a bit tedious, though!
90 days or 129600 minutes. There used to be no limit, but a few folks felt that it was important to delete their old, thread-starting posts and render threads useless (thereby also tossing out the contributions of other people who had participated in the thread). The best, though not optimal, solution to update older content is to post a reply in the thread (and hope people read through).
And just had another incident, where someone decided to render a bunch of threads useless in the plant ID forum. Ended up having to delete them all. *sigh*
well, then. i'd change it down to 5 minutes. one of the main purposes of these forums is for EVERYONE to learn from each other...that can't happen if people delete things once they get their answer - and then the whole thread is trashed due to nothing making sense. it's very selfish for someone to delete their post once they've recieved help and answers to their questions. you never know when your question and the answers received help someone else too. although i haven't been on this forum too long, i've already added more than 20 threads to my watched list - useful info that i'd like to be able to refer back to in the future. i hope none of those threads are in the bunch you've had to delete!
Well, the default is / was 10 minutes. I'm trying to balance giving people freedom to make small changes / updates (particularly in image galleries) with free-for-all. On the other hand, as you correctly note, there is also the balance of what the community deserves - I did make it clear to the person that I thought they were rude and inconsiderate of the others who shared, but it was after the fact.
Thanks Daniel, appreciate the existing time to edit. It's easy to lose train of thought when typing with one finger {myself} and for those whose English is a second language , it's nice to have the time to make corrections or add a little info.
Agree that ten minutes is too short! I can't see that I'd ever want to edit a post after 90 days, but have done occasionally up to about 2 or 3 days. Maybe a week would be a suitable?
In response to Mr. Shep's original post, if information is in error or mispelled, one can send a message to Daniel or me to have it corrected. Obviously, this should only be done for serious correction, because we don't have time to edit grammar or poor word choice. Otherwise I think replying to the thread with new info will add to the conversation and the original posts are important for context and discussion even if some of the info may have been wrong.
I have added image attachments to an old post rather than make a new post before. I know of a post in the Citrus forum whereby I came back in and updated the names of the misses Citrus collection over a year after the original post in the thread was made. There is some benefit at times to amending an old post but it is not something for everyone as I've also seen a thread starter wipe out what was an informative thread before in another forum host. Does make an outsider to that thread wonder why someone would deliberately delete out others posts in the thread just because they were not thrilled later on with their postings. In that particular case the deletion of the thread was not an accident. Errors of enthusiasm are going to happen in a forum format. I've made my fair share of them. On the other hand, I have made some posts in which some of the content probably should be watered down a little or perhaps certain parts in the olden day post be amended or the off topic portions therein in the post be deleted out due to lack pertinence. Eric, as you well know, I asked for your help a while back when I misspelled the name of the Maple I started a thread with and you fixed my error rather quickly. Jim