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I will never understand why people use this. Who reads a thread then goes back to check over whether someone may have altered or added something to their post? Is it just a sneaky way to add bits in knowing that the majority of readers will miss it seeing as nothing flags up to let you know a thread has been modified!

Good lord, what did I do this time?

Before I post, I check. After I post I check again. If I see infelicitous wording I might then tweak a bit, I dislike leaving an unclear sentence.

spot;1397448 wrote: Good lord, what did I do this time?

Before I post, I check. After I post I check again. If I see infelicitous wording I might then tweak a bit, I dislike leaving an unclear sentence.


You might know the correct word, but it goes something like 'circumlocution', that's what you are guilty of.

Don't know why you have jumped into reply here......unless you feel it applies.

Bruv;1397450 wrote: You might know the correct word, but it goes something like 'circumlocution', that's what you are guilty of.

Don't know why you have jumped into reply here......unless you feel it applies.


I had a disturbed night last night, I was twitchy from the start and it's not worn off. By rights I ought to log out and sit in the Cathedral for a few hours.

spot;1397448 wrote: Good lord, what did I do this time?

Before I post, I check. After I post I check again. If I see infelicitous wording I might then tweak a bit, I dislike leaving an unclear sentence.


No you don't just do that, you posted a post earlier, an apology for using the word liar. Your post sat there for a little while and then you went in and added a further quote and a question. Had I not looked online I wouldn't have known you were modifying a post and wouldn't have gone back to read the post. I did go back and read it and I note you've added things in.

I propose that the modifying post function is perfectly fine to correct spelling mistakes or grammar. What is not fine is deleting parts of posts, adding chunks in or totally re-arranging the structure. If you feel you've not got your point across well originally, quote yourself in a new post with the revised statement below. That way I won't spend 10 minutes here sitting reading a post only to find out it's changed a few minutes later or spend time staring at a post wondering if I have totally mis-remembered the original post.

spot;1397452 wrote: I had a disturbed night last night, I was twitchy from the start and it's not worn off. By rights I ought to log out and sit in the Cathedral for a few hours.


Logging you out could be arranged if you don't do it yourself lol

spot;1397452 wrote: I had a disturbed night last night, I was twitchy from the start and it's not worn off. By rights I ought to log out and sit in the Cathedral for a few hours.


Whatever you think it will take, a rub down with the Sporting Life is supposed to work wonders.

I've found the post to which you refer. You're quite right, I thought after that I'd only answered one of Snooze's paragraphs and the other should be dealt with. I tend to dislike posting a second time into the same thread before anyone else does. I'll do that in future rather than plonking my afterthought into a thread that might already have been seen.

spot;1397458 wrote: I've found the post to which you refer. You're quite right, I thought after that I'd only answered one of Snooze's paragraphs and the other should be dealt with. I tend to dislike posting a second time into the same thread before anyone else does. I'll do that in future rather than plonking my afterthought into a thread that might already have been seen.


LIAR! I don't write paragraphs, I'm more of a Hemingway sentence person.

Bruv;1397457 wrote: Whatever you think it will take, a rub down with the Sporting Life is supposed to work wonders.


...thanks for that. I now have a mental picture of spot taking his Sporting Life down to the Cathedral and won't sleep for a week.

spot;1397458 wrote: I've found the post to which you refer. You're quite right, I thought after that I'd only answered one of Snooze's paragraphs and the other should be dealt with. I tend to dislike posting a second time into the same thread before anyone else does. I'll do that in future rather than plonking my afterthought into a thread that might already have been seen.


Thank you, it does make life easier, and you'll know that people are actually seeing your updates.

Are you doing that again just to pee me off?? :wah:

Betty Boop;1397462 wrote: Are you doing that again just to pee me off?? :wah:


Ah. Oops.

spot;1397463 wrote: Ah. Oops.


I'm talking to myself evidently.

SnoozeAgain;1397459 wrote: LIAR! I don't write paragraphs, I'm more of a Hemingway sentence person.


I always felt you write more in the style of Virginia Woolf, though from a standpoint which avoids all that class privilege.

Betty Boop;1397464 wrote: I'm talking to myself evidently.


Does marking a change "eta:" not act as a get out of jail free card?

spot;1397466 wrote: Does marking a change "eta:" not act as a get out of jail free card?


No, because unless you keep re reading posts you've already read you're not going to know that something has been added to the discussion.

Am I watching a 'Power struggle' here ?



I backing common sense.......Betty all the way.

spot;1397452 wrote: I had a disturbed night last night, I was twitchy from the start and it's not worn off. By rights I ought to log out and sit in the Cathedral for a few hours.


I don't know what this thread is about nut I am now having to cope with the image iof spot and his famous candle impersonation. :-3

I believe this type of behavior was tagged an 'odie-ism' some time back. Saying one thing, deleting or changing it and then declaring you never said it in the first place.

that's why we took to quoting her, as I recall.

What you done here Spot, with your confession, is remove the power from your 'find where I have ever said anything like that' challenges you throw out from time to time.

I try to only 'eta' if it is right after i've submitted the post.

I'll tell you what, give me five minutes and I'll dig out my old thrashing bench and you can all do it more comfortably.

I think I'd rather be Dorothy Parker minus the severe drinking problem.

Infamous, as I recall, for persuading an entire generation of otherwise sensible women, in just two pithy lines, not to wear spectacles on dates.

She was right though... men are very superficial. They're still using it in the movies, a woman can remove her glasses and take down her hair and she's supposed to be instantly more attractive.

Phwoar, what, crikey yes, I should say so.

SnoozeAgain;1397482 wrote: She was right though... men are very superficial. They're still using it in the movies, a woman can remove her glasses and take down her hair and she's supposed to be instantly more attractive.Yes, I'd say that's right.

flopstock;1397478 wrote: I believe this type of behavior was tagged an 'odie-ism' some time back. Saying one thing, deleting or changing it and then declaring you never said it in the first place.

that's why we took to quoting her, as I recall.

What you done here Spot, with your confession, is remove the power from your 'find where I have ever said anything like that' challenges you throw out from time to time.

I try to only 'eta' if it is right after i've submitted the post.
That's me. I'll edit sometimes several times to fix grammar or spelling, or if I come up with a better phrase right away. If it's been more than a minute or two I'll at "eta:"



SnoozeAgain;1397482 wrote: She was right though... men are very superficial. They're still using it in the movies, a woman can remove her glasses and take down her hair and she's supposed to be instantly more attractive.
Shake the hair. Leave the glasses. Sexy librarian! :yh_drool



eta: I think you can put a time limit on editing. I suggest 10 minutes.

SnoozeAgain;1397482 wrote: She was right though... men are very superficial. They're still using it in the movies, a woman can remove her glasses and take down her hair and she's supposed to be instantly more attractive.


It sure beats a bald blind woman.

I modify posts all the time.

I don't do It for any underhand reason In fact the thought never occurred to me.

I have to edit all the time as the remnants of cheese crackers remain under my O and G on the keyboard.

I do go back and modify posts here and there because I am usually multi-tasking at the time and I am distracted when I write my post. I then think ' Bugger' and have to go back.

Accountable;1397504 wrote: eta: I think you can put a time limit on editing. I suggest 10 minutes.Yes, and we should add a ringing bell and commentary after we click on the "edit post" button.

*Riiinnnggggg* "And they're off!...Making a run on the outside it's "Adduhcaption" with "Miss Spell" on the inside...It's "Where's that comma" trailing the field(as usual)"

We used to have a poster here that would delete her posts after half an hour or so and the thread continuity would end up screwy. Hi Pam!

SnoozeAgain;1397518 wrote: We used to have a poster here that would delete her posts after half an hour or so and the thread continuity would end up screwy. Hi Pam!
Yep.

I have only ever edited a post on seeing some glaring mistake and that is almost instantly.

Is it possible to edit posts that were done days ago ?

I thought that facility was lost on leaving the thread, if that is not correct it should be.

Can editing posts be altered in the control panel, so that on leaving a thread, or after so much time, the post remains un-editable.

Bruv;1397553 wrote: Is it possible to edit posts that were done days ago ?
No. The admin panel has a counter after which there's no longer an edit button.

spot;1397556 wrote: No. The admin panel has a counter after which there's no longer an edit button.


Dang, I have about 6,000 that need immediate attention.

spot;1397452 wrote: I had a disturbed night last night, I was twitchy from the start and it's not worn off. By rights I ought to log out and sit in the Cathedral for a few hours.


This what I am picturing...............

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along-for-the-ride;1397590 wrote: This what I am picturing............... You need to modify that post... you left out an ' Is '

along-for-the-ride;1397590 wrote: This what I am picturing...............


Goodness me, that's St Stephens.

spot;1397594 wrote: Goodness me, that's St Stephens.
It's Peter O'Toole Isn't It ?

oscar;1397592 wrote: You need to modify that post... you left out an ' Is '
No. She spelt dis wrong, as in "Dis what I am picturing..." Ah, that's better.

oscar;1397595 wrote: It's Peter O'Toole Isn't It ?


Little known fact: Peter O'Toole is the only male actor in existence. They just use a really good make-up team on him. TV and movies aren't going to be the same when he dies.

Me, I have to modify my posts because my darned RA messes up my tpying.

Saint_;1397691 wrote: Me, I have to modify my posts because my darned RA messes up my tpying.


RA?

remote access

sun god

radium

Either Rheumatoid Arthritis or Ridiculous Anthropomorphism. I forget which...

I go back in and alter spelling mistakes and typos all the time.

What I don't get is people that go back and add afterthoughts or take bits away therefore changing the structure of the posts. If the post is within a thread that happens to be fast moving any alterations are missed as people participating are keeping up with newer posts. So, chances are, if you do employ this method be aware that some people are not reading your after thought, therefore in my mind modifying posts in that way is pointless :wah:

spot;1397556 wrote: No. The admin panel has a counter after which there's no longer an edit button.


Can the counter be set for a shorter time, such as 3 minutes ?

That is enough time to reread and then edit most posts.

Betty Boop;1397702 wrote:

So, chances are, if you do employ this method be aware that some people are not reading your after thought, therefore in my mind modifying posts in that way is pointless :wah:


Or worse...............malicious.

I always believed that, if a post was changed, it would show as "edited." So I didn't cotton on at all. If a post was different to what I'd remembered reading, I would blame my age

theia;1397715 wrote: If a post was different to what I'd remembered reading, I would blame my age


Ahhh....

Bruv;1397716 wrote: Ahhh....


I'm quoting your post...just in case you dare