Topic: Post too old to edit?

I tried to edit a post I did yesterday (in this Showing Cookies With PHP), but I got a message saying that the post was too old to be edited. Disabling editing for posts that are a couple of weeks old might be a good idea, but I think I should be able to edit posts I did less than 24 hours ago...


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(Edited by Veneficuz on 05-20-2004 12:01)

As i recall correct this had been done since to prevent people to edit away their posts in an heated discussion.
In the past some people/trolls deleted very offending posts an thus making it hard to judge right the latter hard reactions on these posts. You have 4 hours to correct yourself then the post is getting to old to edit.

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I believe the thinking behind it is that the window is open to correct typos and broken links but if you have other things to add you can just add another reply and it avoids all sorts of nonsense with people changing their posts making the whole discussion non-sensical (if it wasn't there already, of course).

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And you can always get a Mad Sci to do it for you, if it is really necessary...

the time limit for editing posts is 4 hours now - more than enough to fixing links.

The main problem with the old system was that you had to reread threads all the time, because people could add to their posts further up. No one wants to have to do that all the time (and the 'edited by' text doesn't really help if it's on the other page of a thread).

Put like that I understand why it is the way it is, thanks for explaining

In my case I only wanted to correct the information in the post, since it turned out that what I said was only partially correct.

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