Quick edit button and time to edit.

[wildernesse]

Hi!

Have we always had a time limit for editing? If so, why does the quick edit button still remain even after that time has expired?

Sorry if this has been covered somewhere.

Thanks,
Tiffany

[livius drusus]

We have indeed always had a time limit for editing (see the Post Ownership and Editing Policy (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=135#post135) posted the day before we opened ;)). Not to come across as a total idiot or anything, but does the regular edit button disappear after 24 hours? We can edit forever and forever, ya see, so I kind of forgot if that's the way it normally goes.

[Skep]

I just looked at a post of mine from a couple days ago. No regular edit button appears but quick edit still appears. :popcorn:

[livius drusus]

Woopsie. :giggles: Ah, the joys of a hacked board. So let me ask you this, Skep: by any chance can you actually use said QE button to save an edit on a 2 day old post?

[Skep]

No. I get this message:

The administrator has specified that you can only edit messages for 1440 minutes after you have posted. This limit has expired, so you must contact the administrator to make alterations on your message.


:wave:

[livius drusus]

Thank you, Skep. :guinpig:

[wildernesse]

Thanks, liv, for answering my question. I asked because today is the first time I tried to edit one of my old posts, so it's the first time I've been confronted with it. The edit button disappeared, but I thought maybe everyone decided they hated the edit button, so you just got rid of it completely and left the QE button. (I think this is a perfectly reasonable explanation for the disappearance of the edit button.) Skeptoid's posts tell you what happened next.

Teehee.

[viscousmemories]

Just FYI, we will gladly make any reasonable edits of your old posts if you ask us to. Which is to say we won't go through and delete the content from any or all of your old posts if you request it, but if you just want to change a thing or two we'll do that for ya.

[wildernesse]

DELETE THEM ALL!!! Bwhahaha. Reasonable doesn't live here.

Um, anyway, thanks for the tip, but in this case I can just make a new post.