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Title: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Merlin on June 10, 2009, 11:06:42 am
Is the usual "modify" function to allow changes to our post removed or is my Google Chrome acting up? ???
I wanted to insert some new info into one of my recent post but could not find the modify button anymore. Any ideas? Thanks! ;)
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Merlin on June 10, 2009, 11:11:00 am
Is the usual "modify" function to allow changes to our post removed or is my Google Chrome acting up? ???
I wanted to insert some new info into one of my recent post but could not find the modify button anymore. Any ideas? Thanks! ;)

PS: This is weird. This post has the modify function intact after I posted but still not present in all my old posts. ??? :o
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: David_CA on June 10, 2009, 12:14:44 pm
How old is the post you want to modify?  There's a time limit for modifying posts (just in case you didn't know).
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Ann on June 10, 2009, 12:15:59 pm
Merlin, posts can only be modified within ... um, I think it's 36 hours. Might be 48, but I think it's 36. You can either make a new post in the relevent thread, or if you really want the added info in the original post, I can do it for you. Moderators can always edit any post, and when we do, our name appears in the edit stamp.

Ann


PS - I just dug around in the admin pages - posts can be edited for 2880 minutes, which is 48 hours or two days, take your pick. ;) I can never remember since I don't need to worry about the time limit.
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Merlin on June 10, 2009, 12:47:38 pm
Oh I see, thanks so much David and Ann. :-*
I had no idea. I thought our posts like us can live forever.. ;D

Blessed Be!

PS: I'll just quote myself and add new info then. No worries. Thanks again.
PPS: Sorry Google Chrome, thought it could have been you... :-* :D
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: David_CA on June 10, 2009, 01:12:38 pm
Oh I see, thanks so much David and Ann. :-*
I had no idea. I thought our posts like us can live forever.. ;D

Blessed Be!

PS: I'll just quote myself and add new info then. No worries. Thanks again.
PPS: Sorry Google Chrome, thought it could have been you... :-* :D

Our posts do live forever due to this change.  If I'm remembering correctly, we went through a period when people were deleting the content of all their posts. 
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Ann on June 11, 2009, 06:16:09 am
Our posts do live forever due to this change.  If I'm remembering correctly, we went through a period when people were deleting the content of all their posts. 

Yep, and that's why we changed the time available to edit posts. It was really annoying when people did that!
Title: Re: "Modify" function missing
Post by: Merlin on June 11, 2009, 08:21:24 am
Our posts do live forever due to this change.  If I'm remembering correctly, we went through a period when people were deleting the content of all their posts.  

I totally agree that it's really anti-social to self remove any post for whatever reasons. Having said that, I recalled technically, not all our posts lived forever. When we migrated to this new format some years back, alot of our old threads did not survive the transition.  :'( There were alot of great info in those threads.
Wish they had huge Tetra Bytes of external storage drives then for sale like now, I'd have had saved them myself.  :-[.  Ah well.... ;D