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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 14, 2016 at 11:16 pm
(December 14, 2016 at 11:03 pm)Regina Wrote: I hate when I read one of my posts back a few hours later and then I spot a glaring spelling or grammatical mistake that I missed before, and it's too bloody late to edit.
Can someone explain why that two-hour limit rule is a thing? Does it make the forum run more smoothly or something? I've been on others that don't have it.
It's so people can't go back and edit posts days or more later and make them say something they didn't say to begin with, or remove all of the content. Stuff like that is unfair to the people who responded in the discussion at the time. Especially when you can make responses in line look really badly.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 14, 2016 at 11:20 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2016 at 11:20 pm by Regina.)
Seems fair enough
I just hate when a well thought out post gets ruined by some 5-year-old-worthy grammar  haha
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 14, 2016 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2016 at 11:29 pm by emjay.)
(December 14, 2016 at 11:03 pm)Regina Wrote: I hate when I read one of my posts back a few hours later and then I spot a glaring spelling or grammatical mistake that I missed before, and it's too bloody late to edit.
Can someone explain why that two-hour limit rule is a thing? Does it make the forum run more smoothly or something? I've been on others that don't have it.
I think it's just in service to Tibs' ideal of the immutability of posts on the site... so that people can't change the whole flow of a conversation after the fact by changing or editing out what they said... or at least not too much/too long after the fact.
(December 14, 2016 at 11:20 pm)Regina Wrote: Seems fair enough
I just hate when a well thought out post gets ruined by some 5-year-old-worthy grammar haha
Maybe a possible alternative would be instead of limiting the duration, limit the amount of characters that can be changed in an edit (if it was programmatically feasible I mean)... so that it could only really be used for correcting typos etc rather than changing/deleting whole blocks of text.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 14, 2016 at 11:49 pm
Editing posts forever is the sole reason I became a mod.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 14, 2016 at 11:58 pm
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 15, 2016 at 12:06 am
Just got back from the movies with my daughter.
We saw Trolls.
My kid loved it and I feel asleep multiple times only to be awoken with, 'daddy, you're snoring again.'
Maybe something funny had just happened in the movie but I think people may have been laughing at me.
It's ok though. When I'm dad I'm immune to embarrassment.
My daughter is not. :-)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 15, 2016 at 12:23 am
(December 14, 2016 at 11:49 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Editing posts forever is the sole reason I became a mod.
I'll bet  It is/was great having those permissions down in Mafia... I felt so free (get the violins out  ) so I think it would be heaven to have them on the whole site. I had them for doing the stats but I'm not doing them any more so they should probably be revoked... but still, it was fun while it lasted.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 15, 2016 at 3:26 am
Listening to the pogues fairy tale in New York while in work getting goosebumps.
A song about a domestic dispute really makes me feel so Christmassy
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 15, 2016 at 6:07 am
Looking at Dill, who's currently in my kid's shoes.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
December 15, 2016 at 8:03 am
Getting ready for school.
31 more days to go.
(not including weekends or scheduled days off)
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