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Poll: Should editing of posts be allowed?
Currently all users on LowEndTalk are able to edit their posts for 15 minutes after the discussion or comment is published:
Should we change this setting?
Voice your opinion!
Based on feedback received and comments from our mod/admin team we may make an adjustment to the current 15 minute limitation.
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Editing Posts/Comments
- Should we extend how long you can edit on LowEndTalk?197 votes
- No, leave it at 15 minutes29.95%
- Yes, increase it to 1 hour24.87%
- Yes, increase it to 1 day11.68%
- Yes, increase it to 1 week2.54%
- Yes, increase it to 1 month2.54%
- Yes, always allow edits no matter how much time has passed28.43%
Comments
30 min for comments.
However long for OP, especially for offer threads.
Does not appear that we can differentiate between original post and comments thereafter.
Then it'll be a sticky situation.
If I have to choose one I'd say 1 month for everyone considering the need of update from providers.
Wasn't the latest one 1hr?
Looks like it was changed recently to 15mins.
It is currently sett to 15 minutes. I am not aware of any change to this setting recently.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
15 minutes is more than long enough to realize you fucked up.
Are you positive? I swear it was 1hr a few days ago. I edit 90% of my posts, mostly due to poor handling of fat fingers lol.
I say leave it as it was for comments - 1hr, and allow OP posting in certain categories (for example - offers) to be able to change within 24hrs, as sometimes providers post stuff by mistake, and are a few hrs too late to edit out.
This should relieve some strain from the moderation team, so they don't have to go to threads that have been flagged by OP, to change something minor.
Because Vanilla has essentially no native logging through the GUI I cannot say for sure.
I will dig into the database to see.
Yes, it was an hour before this.
On a forum like LET, 15 minutes is sufficient. This allows one to correct typos or to reformulate a sentence or two.
What a number of us dislike is when someone deletes the content of their post and others can no longer tell what people have replied to.
A limit of 15 minutes doesn't completely eliminate this behavior, but it reduces it.
For me, it allows 1 hour to edit posts.
Vanilla is fun 😋
I'd suggest 1 week as a compromise for Providers to update their deals (as locations come into stock or run out)
If you edit your post right now, does my reply remove your quote? I didn't think it worked that way.
Too long.
They can just post a new update themselves, or if absolutely required, they can always seek assistance from the mods to edit/update an existing post.
Hello!
I agree with @angstrom!
I voted for leaving the allowed time period for editing as is at 15 minutes. That's enough to catch typos.
Fixing typos is fine. Changing the historical record creates much confusion. IMHO!
Best wishes!
Tom
If technical limitations didn't exist, I would say that the best solution is to allow infinite edits but maintain a history of what the post used to be. GitHub does this for example.
That aside, I found 1 hour to be sufficient, 15 minutes is stifling.
It has always been 60 minutes (1hr) - at least for some months, or maybe years.
This was apparently changed to 15 minutes.
Not sure when, but I noticed this just some weeks ago.
It was 1 hour until a few days ago, I can confirm this as well.
It was 4 hours several months ago and has been on a downwards trend ever since.
It was 4 hours when I was active last year
Yeah, I now remember that too, and also the comments per page was also changed some time ago.
If I understand you well, indeed, if someone has already quoted the original post, then the quoted post isn't affected if the author of the original post decides to delete the content of their post.
That said, there have been many cases on LET where others reply without quoting the original post, and then the author of the original post decides to delete its contents. Keeping the time allowed for editing the original post short means that the author of the original post has less time to delete its contents.
It used to be an hour and my opinion is that an hour is good.
Only if there was some way to gather money from providers to hire someone to "fix" this in Vanilla and give providers a week to edit opening post and override the default settings.
That's why quote-reply is just plain good etiquette so context isn't confused.
Also, on mobile, there's got to be a way to delete a draft without leaving the thread.
For example, I quote reply someone. I start replying and then realize I don't want to. I highlight it all, delete it and go on. Next day, I go to reply to something else and my previously "deleted" text is back and inserted at the top of unrelated response. Happens regularly.
On my linux/Firefox laptop too, so not confined to mobile phone use.
I think it was an hour until yesterday, but in any case, an hour is better than 15 minutes.
More longer is good if it can keep a history of past changes.
Can we show a public edit history for each post? IF so, then increase the 15 min to 4 hours like it was.
Even I agree,
1 hour for comments.
1 day for OP.
1 hour. Insta ban to OPs who delete or significantly edit content of the first post. No exceptions.