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You can edit your posts for one hour after posting.
In my opinion, I think that's generally enough time to edit for simple mistakes, and typically avoids too many replies to those mistakes. If edits were allowed for a longer period of time, discussions could easily be confused, since some would have replied to the original post while others reply to the edited post.
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I have no good reply
To your witty post
But maybe this will do
And perhaps convince our host
That sometimes editing a thread can be
a very good thing indeed
When a thread gets too long to find
The answer that you need
Or perhaps you write a poem
And think it's going well
Only to find over an hour later
Your rhyme and meter have gone to the hot place.
If edits were allowed for a longer period of time, discussions could easily be confused, since some would have replied to the original post while others reply to the edited post.
I've never once seen that become a problem. In my experience, it's more good than bad, especially where homebrew is concerned.
On other boards, I've seen people edit or delete their posts days after they made them, making discussions extremely confused and annoying.
If you write a poem and feel the need to post a revised version, post it later in the thread.
Same with any other revision of your thoughts.
The option to append additional information to posts you've already made, after the one hour limit, would be very nice. Would allow maintenance of lists, for example.
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The option to append additional information to posts you've already made, after the one hour limit, would be very nice. Would allow maintenance of lists, for example.
Thank you! This is one of my smaller pet peeves. Also, in PbP, sucks as you typed wizard on the bus ride home on your cellphone, when he mean princess, and everyone gets so confused when you stabbed the wizard and kissed the princess. You know what would avoid that confusion? Edit.ing.
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.)
How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)
Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved.)
Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
T. Roethke
Always liked that one.
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The option to append additional information to posts you've already made, after the one hour limit, would be very nice. Would allow maintenance of lists, for example.
The best way to maintain a list is to use the list feature on the site. you can list posts, so you make a thread discussing something with a link to your newly created list, and then make a second post to the thread with your entries to the list. Add this second post to your list that you hyperlinked in the first post. You can add posts to this list at will, so you could add later posts by either yourself or other posters to the list. If you want just one post on that list, you can always posts new list to the thread and add it to the list, deleteing the old one...
Edit: Example list
The option to append additional information to posts you've already made, after the one hour limit, would be very nice. Would allow maintenance of lists, for example.
That would be nice. Would also make it easier for posts where you are say posting something and then posting revisions to later -- you could append the OP either with your revisions or a link to your post with the revisions in it. There's a lot of threads where someone is posting a link to their character sheet or a build they made, and it becomes frustrating to find where the links to updates are because you have to scan through the whole thread (which includes discussions) to find the latest version.
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Editable reference posts are on the todo list. Letting people edit posts after more than an hour has passed is less likely to get done though. Note however that these things are somewhat lower on the todo list at the moment, though there are a couple of things that might move it up a bit.
The best way to maintain a list is to use the list feature on the site. you can list posts, so you make a thread discussing something with a link to your newly created list, and then make a second post to the thread with your entries to the list. Add this second post to your list that you hyperlinked in the first post. You can add posts to this list at will, so you could add later posts by either yourself or other posters to the list. If you want just one post on that list, you can always posts new list to the thread and add it to the list, deleteing the old one...
Edit: Example list
I hadn't noticed that feature before. Thanks.
A window larger than an hour would be nice though. Two to three would be really nice, especially for PbP.
I agree. I just found a post I messed up about an hour after the fact. Getting an extension to two hours would be nice.