Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
I noticed there is no edit post button in the forums. Why not?
Every forum I belong to has this functionality and believe me it comes in very handy when you realize you made a spelling mistake that a 2ND grader would correct.
Well, there is the feature to review posts before putting them on a system. I supposed j quared wants us all to be grammar nazis. But lol, in all seriousness it's not a bad idea. Maybe not the most useful, but it certainly saves embarrasement or further explanation.
good idea:)
this has been suggested before and the answer has always been a resounding no.
I think the only way that an edit post function would work on here would be if it were only available for a limited timeframe for the express reason to edit say, spelling mistakes.
The problem here is that there is so much drama here already that the function would be widely open to abuse and would just create more issues than it would resolve..
I agree with Clair, the only way this should go threw is if someone either has a verry short time frame to edit, or all revisions can be viewed by everyone.
Yep, I can see it now. someone makes a post and totally trashes someone, and when negative feedback comes rolling in, they just edit it and the confusion begins.
Yep, I was gonna say that I had done a thread on this before, but it's probably been locked from old age by now, lol.
Anyway, yep, that's the way it works on the other main forum I'm on. I believe a user has half an hour to edit, or until they log out. As for drama, every forum has it! True, some more than others, but if you could see that issue here, I could see it just about anywhere.
don't forget there is a checkbox that says "preview before posting". Maybe that should be checked by default.
Don't many places on the net have so-called drama? And all forums are based on databases, hell the entire web and any archiving system is based on database technologies for one reason or another. And all records in a database schemes have all records and users uniquely ID'ed.
Decision is theirs to make for sure, and it's one way this place is very different from anyplace else I visit online. Then again, I've always been of the philosophy that tools aren't the problem, people either are or aren't. Can't really complain though: I keep coming back here. It's like Facebook or anyplace else you frequent: there are things that may annoy you, but not annoy you enough to make you go away.
I believe that if a board topic gets so out of hand that legal issues come up and someone's well-being is at steak, the staff will make an exception and completely delete that particular topic. So at least that can be said for the zone.
Oh, the staff can delete any topic they choose. Just as in the other forum I mentioned, users aren't able to delete topics; if they want a topic deleted they must ask a moderator or the admin. That's fine, but it takes power away from the users when that's all you've got. As for the review post, yes, that's good, but what if you've had an afterthought? Maybe you want to add something but don't want to doublepost?
Actually, I have an idea. what if you had until someone else posted to edit your last post. that way, it would avoid the confusion of people replying to posts that were no longer what they were at the time, but you could still edit/add thoughts. In other words, as long as your post is the most recent post, you are free to edit.
To the last poster, I totally like that idea. awesome suggestion! :)
Ocean Dream, that's a great idea! It would also solve the suggested problem of people editing or deleting their post to hide the evidence of or exaserbate drama.
I kind of like the idea that a poster has until they log off, or someone posts to the topic to edit their post.
Bob
I do not understand why we are not allowed to edit or delete our own posts. At the very least, why can they not be made available only to members? Most other places allow editing and deletion and several make their posts members only. I think it's truly unfair for those who joined here when they were younger and/or who didn't think about what they were posting. Certain older posts could cause trouble with them gaining employment, and we all know how difficult it already is for us blind people to find jobs, especially in the current economy. For example, the post could be something sexual, immature, related to their current job but before they got it i.e. writing"I hate children" five years ago, and they're applying for a teacher's position now, or even just embarrassing. It's honestly not far fetched to think that a potential employer could stumble across such a thing and judge an applicant based on it.
People remove posts in threads on Facebook groups all the time. I've done it just because the info I had was incorrect, so removed the post and added one on the end saying old one gone here's the right info.
The term 'drama' just seems to be a catch-all word for what someone doesn't like now. There is no real drama on an Internet board. Not like the young members of the subspecies homo spasticus can throw in real life.
There is a checkbox, "preview before posting". Use it. If you don't like what you have written, you should have thought about it before you wrote. It's like real life; Can you erase what you have said from people's recordings/video, if they do so? Didn't think so.
Ok, let's preview before posting...
You're missing the point. Every other online forum allows people the opportunity to edit things. Perhaps, someone posted on their way out the door and didn't have time to use the preview feature or wanted to add something extra. Maybe, they proof-read their post but still missed something or made a mistake that they later wished to edit, or perhaps they just wish to delete an older post.
Regardless of the situation, I still don't understand why posts can't be made available to members only. I know that all sites offer this feature but some do.
I do agree that the Boards, as well as the blog should have the option of its posts being available to members only. Perhaps it could be a setting in "Account Settings", or a checkbox below the edit field, similar to the "Preview Before Posting". I also still like the idea of having until someone replies to your post on a particular topic to edit/delete it.
fair point guys
First of all, I'd like to say that the ability to edit your post before someone posts into the thread where you had posted is I think the smartest idea that I've ever seen with regards to the constant requests that have plagued this board clammering to be able to edit board posts. I've personally never been fond of the forums that have allowed you to go back and reedit or completely erase a post that you've previously made. They are, in my opinion too forgiving of a person's stupidity and hardly a reflection of real life where whether you erase something or not, a person -will- remember it.
Second of all, it was mentioned previously that employers might check you out and stumble onto previous board posts that you've made either on this site or another site and think differently about you because of things you had posted once upon a time in an earlier life. Well people, let's try to remember this too: things that are often said to people that might be hurtful, moronic or immature aren't forgotten. So, I don't see why board posts that you've posted whether you've attempted to be a drama queen or tried to discuss your revolutionary idea about turning people into tentacled mutants should be forgotten. If you're going to try to spend the rest of your life being a people pleaser or glossing over the earlier aspects of your immature years, of which your employers have doubtless experienced, good luck with it! You'll soon find out that whether you've posted immature comments previously in your life or not, that you won't be able to please everyone.
This place is so weird about so-called real-life instances.
Surely, it's not a stretch to know that in so-called real life, I had written things at 14 which I do not possess anymore, for the simple reason I tore them up, burned them or whatever, even simply lost them. Also an employer only speaks to prior references, not your social circle. If now they can access content online via a Google Search, that is a game changer. One which industries know about and make a lot of money at, to protect privacy.
Honestly the false parallels are more like perpendiculars. Truth be told, you say something yes. If it spreads, its likely to be spread third or fourth hand, which dilutes the effect, very different from someone being able to read the original scraps of paper things got written on.
Also, and this in particular relates to younger people, one can grow a lot in six months. When I was some of you all's age, we could just throw away the old diary, ditch the old writing, etc.
These so-called real-life parallels (perpendiculars) bear little resemblace to the actual real-life mechanisms human beings have developed for millennia.
And the sites who do allow user control of content even on forums, outnumber the sites who do not. If this site doesn't want to, they don't have to. But the weird perpendiculars that totally deny the formerly-held mechanisms humans have used for millennia are silly.