RE: Editing / Deleting Posts
August 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2011 at 12:59 pm by Violet.)
And I still think it doesn't affect the people who it should effect (ie: trolls) well enough, and it still gets in the way of the better members (ie: I still can't go back to my recent post in the members photo thread and fix it, because it's been a good 6 hours at least), and good members can come back to necro threads and clean their mistakes up for future readers. I certainly don't want to cause the mods any particular pains over this, much rather just leave a post broken or with several moderate mistakes than bug someone myself.
Really, when it comes to implementing this sort of thing... I think the best course of action is to only affect the low end of the poster-spectrum. These are the only people who make trouble over this kind of thing with the exceptions of very few others (ie: recently emporeon) that shouldn't be handled by a blanket rule that affects everyone's ability to post well all the time (not being able to delete is a pain, seriously).
Also, a crude 'post delete' can still work in editing and removing everything but enough characters to post. While it's certainly less clean than the simple delete button, it is an available(albeit aggravating all around) option. Why this is particularly annoying: it bumps a thread and affects the overview box and todays posts and new posts. Nevertheless, it is possible.
Another notation on the 2 hour time thing... there are times when I have to drop whatever I'm doing immediately and assist in a work-related emergency. Plenty often I am then given another job right after the emergency that I need to perform, and by the time that's done it is time to go out in the boat and pick out the slackies (and turn nets), and we get in for 30 minutes for bathroom or a bite to eat and hop back out to pull nets. On our 66 tote day and 48 tote day, we had to roundhaul many of our nets due to having so many fish in them, meaning another several hours spent picking our nets clear... only to set again a few hours later with most of us not able to sleep.
When shit happens and one just clicked the post button as they were on their way out the door... it is not unlikely that they will be gone for several hours in a work related fixing of this, rarely a whole day or more, but it can happen. And yet, all a troll needs is a single response before they change what they say in a post, and from posters like me this can come in minutes, if not seconds.
Wholly: it doesn't solve any problems (other than them deleting posts, but as I said above there are ways to basically do this) and it adds new annoyances to the forum (which affect you more if you work sporadically and have a 'how about this way?' thought process). I suggest rather an arbitrary post count where you have limited privileges... which makes far more sense from the get-go.
Really, when it comes to implementing this sort of thing... I think the best course of action is to only affect the low end of the poster-spectrum. These are the only people who make trouble over this kind of thing with the exceptions of very few others (ie: recently emporeon) that shouldn't be handled by a blanket rule that affects everyone's ability to post well all the time (not being able to delete is a pain, seriously).
Also, a crude 'post delete' can still work in editing and removing everything but enough characters to post. While it's certainly less clean than the simple delete button, it is an available(albeit aggravating all around) option. Why this is particularly annoying: it bumps a thread and affects the overview box and todays posts and new posts. Nevertheless, it is possible.
Another notation on the 2 hour time thing... there are times when I have to drop whatever I'm doing immediately and assist in a work-related emergency. Plenty often I am then given another job right after the emergency that I need to perform, and by the time that's done it is time to go out in the boat and pick out the slackies (and turn nets), and we get in for 30 minutes for bathroom or a bite to eat and hop back out to pull nets. On our 66 tote day and 48 tote day, we had to roundhaul many of our nets due to having so many fish in them, meaning another several hours spent picking our nets clear... only to set again a few hours later with most of us not able to sleep.
When shit happens and one just clicked the post button as they were on their way out the door... it is not unlikely that they will be gone for several hours in a work related fixing of this, rarely a whole day or more, but it can happen. And yet, all a troll needs is a single response before they change what they say in a post, and from posters like me this can come in minutes, if not seconds.
Wholly: it doesn't solve any problems (other than them deleting posts, but as I said above there are ways to basically do this) and it adds new annoyances to the forum (which affect you more if you work sporadically and have a 'how about this way?' thought process). I suggest rather an arbitrary post count where you have limited privileges... which makes far more sense from the get-go.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
