edit button?

I compose my post. I reread it and try to find errors. English is not my strong subject. I post and reread it again.

Sometimes I have to edit and it never takes more than 10 minutes.

It shouldn't take a hour to edit if ones does their proof reading as they go.

If someone wants to add something later, simply start a new post.

If one has a laptop or desktop, Google Chrome is great for forums. It automatically highlights mispelled words as you type and offers suggestions.

 

Sometimes I post from the phone on a short break and later I might read it when parked and have the laptop out. Might want to add something or change at that point.

 

395.199 Forum postings can only be done on 10 hour breaks.

On the other end if we had open editing, we could have several pages accumulated on a thread and the OP decides he doesn't like what he see's and deletes the post via an edit. Then we have a totally useless thread where twenty people wasted their time.

Mods will help anyone, even a post delete if conditions are right like not many replies or something that could hurt someone,....... Changing ones mind a couple days later because of negative comments and there is five pages isn't one of them. We have to control that part or a bunch of members get upset.

 

I saw that happen on another forum I used to frequent. The OP didn't like the direction that the thread had taken--and it was a silly topic to begin with--so he went back and edited all his posts with punctuation marks, smilies, and other nonsense. For that reason alone, I almost universally support a time limit on edits.

 

The other thing that I have seen with forums who have unlimited editing, is that a person can go back and change what they originally posted to an entirely different view. Then start ragging about, "But that is NOT what I said, go look at the post." There are no limits on how nutso some folks are when they are sitting behind a keyboard and screen, rather than talking face to face.