Why Bother Allowing Editing At All.

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Re: Why Bother Allowing Editing At All.

OK, we've opened edit time back up to 5 minutes

Very wise decision. 1 minute was way too short. I don't think you want MOL to be full of typos, repeated words and grammar mistakes. All of us make them from time to tmie.

[Nappers]

Re: Why Bother Allowing Editing At All.

yeah, my dyslexia kicks in time to time....


All people with dyslexia untie! I mean Unite!

[HCAD]

Re: Why Bother Allowing Editing At All.

Okay, so I should have searched better BEFORE I started another thread about "editing posts".

Regardless, here's my scenario. I posted in a thread and linked a photo of mine from another forum. The post looked fine upon "previewing". Ten minutes later the pic is only a red "x". Now I would like to go back and edit the post to include a link from Photobucket instead. BUT I CAN'T!!

Adults know how to use an "edit" button. Children abuse it. Nuff said.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Why Bother Allowing Editing At All.

Okay, so I should have searched better BEFORE I started another thread about "editing posts".

Regardless, here's my scenario. I posted in a thread and linked a photo of mine from another forum. The post looked fine upon "previewing". Ten minutes later the pic is only a red "x". Now I would like to go back and edit the post to include a link from Photobucket instead. BUT I CAN'T!!

Adults know how to use an "edit" button. Children abuse it. Nuff said.

We always suggest that people host their images (for free) here on MOL. We've seen too many cases of online image hosting companies either limiting bandwidth, or simply going out of business. Images then turn into little red X's, or generic warning placeholders appear in their place. And this can happen days, weeks or even years later.