Editing Posts and Replacing with a .

[Martell]

Please do not do this on a regular basis. It clutters the forums. It's ok for the one off time when maybe you said something you wished you hadn't, but not for every post.

[BrianEdwards]

I see that our editing privelages have been greatly limited

I don't ever get my grammar or words right the first time. Typing on an iPhone is the root cause. There's always an edit or two required, as I don't like having a misspelled word or improper punctuation. I've got a post from this afternoon that I'd like to fix some of those things in..

Maybe as time goes on we could get 24 hours to edit. I so agree that the Geographics stuff is maddening. I'd be fine seeing his 1010 posts removed to unclog the forum and make people's forum stats more accurate.

[Martell]

I agree Brian, I often edit my grammar or spelling with the edit button. For some reason using the preview button I never catch all my mistakes.

I set it to a temporary three hour limit for now, but that won't be permanent

[kepPNW]

I set it to a temporary three hour limit for now, but that won't be permanent

Ouch! Sure hope not. I've had to edit bad links to correct posts that were months old.

If you could convince the rest of the Internet to just leave stuff where you put it, well, then, alright.

[Martell]

The temporary edit lock is lifted.

For people who do this to several posts, they will lose the ability to edit their posts.

[BrianEdwards]

Thanks, good choice

[kepPNW]

Excellent resolution!

[mcds]

For people who do this to several posts, they will lose the ability to edit their posts.

This is not a policy that I am comfortable with, particularly it being retroactive. Forward going would be another thing.

I, like everyone else here, joined when ph.org allowed unlimited editing. That was the rule of content. If you created it, you could edit it. That was the culture. Whether or not we liked the scope of editing, we all agreed to it. We all agreed to it and contributed knowing others might use that aspect in ways we ourselves would not. To make retroactive a change as fundamental as that is not fair, to say the least.

I will continue to consider all my past posts to be fully editable at will.

[retired jerry]

No worry, you will continue to be able to edit your posts whenever you want.

[Martell]

I'm only talking about deleting everything and replacing your entire post with a ".", not just normal editing of a post. I don't think anyone can honestly expect to be able to do that to all their posts. Just imagine if everyone did it, the forum would be a mess.

If you have something sensitive in a post you want to take out that's fine of course.

Technically, you do agree to your posts being stored, "As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database." This is standard policy for internet forums. It would be trivial for a third party to mirror all the forum posts as well, something you would have no ability to edit.