Why is there an edit time limit?
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Just out of curiosity, why do we limit how long you can edit the first post? Ongoing list topics (IE: My filenotfoundstorage.com post) are intended to be consistently updated with the most recent information.
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Ours is not to question why. Ours is but to
do and diebend to @codinghorror's whims.
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Just out of curiosity, why do we limit how long you can edit the first post?
[Minute for ninja, 24hrs for final][1]. This compares to just the 5 minute ninja edit we had on CS. The decision to reduce them down from 5mins/1 year was taken after it was decided to remove edit histories from public consumption.
Ongoing list topics (IE: My filenotfoundstorage.com post) are intended to be consistently updated with the most recent information.
The only workaround I can think of is turning that post into a wiki, but that would allow everyone to edit it.
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But, why are we restricting edit times to 24 hours?
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But, why are we restricting edit times to 24 hours?
@PJH said:The decision to reduce them down from 5mins/1 year was taken after it was decided to remove edit histories from public consumption.
As you apparently missed that point. Without edit history being visible it is too easy to pull shenanigans with long edit times.
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As you apparently missed that point. Without edit history being visible it is too easy to pull shenanigans with long edit times.
That is non-point. If we do things the way Jeff-the-god tells us to, then everything should be quoted and thus preserved for record keeping.
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Sorry, let me try this again:
When has a long edit period EVER changed our typical shenanigans? Generally speaking, I've never seen anybody go back to the original post and edit it to be something completely different than the original topic. Even if they did, the corresponding replies don't fit the original post, and so raise suspicions, especially on this forum.
I don't see this as a problem in this community that we should forcibly restrict it.
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Most forums don't do that, so why do we need to? The limit on the old server was stupid, too.
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Just out of curiosity, why do we limit how long you can edit the first post? Ongoing list topics (IE: My filenotfoundstorage.com post) are intended to be consistently updated with the most recent information.
It is logical to have an edit time limit if people cannot see what was edited. Otherwise entire conversation in dickcourse will go belly-up in the sinking sea of vast postage.
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Actually, it's a year by default. @PJH and @dhromed set it to a day or something.
Obviously Evil-dooers!!
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Actually, there are plenty of good ideas for it - it prevents people going back and editing their posts in a scorched-earth scenario and it also limits certain kinds of spam.
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yes that is what I meant by "sea of postage". I should have said "sea of postings" and your brain could have processed it faster.
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Here, in this community?
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No, as a general thing. It is a standard feature in even the old-school free sludgepit forums for those reasons.
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As you apparently missed that point. Without edit history being visible it is too easy to pull shenanigans with long edit times.
I thought that shenanigans were the point of this forum
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Holy cow yes.