ElectroMaster
Administrator
Hello all,
After many posts and lots of PMs, I think the 'editing posts' topic deserves its own thread. This is to allow people to give their input and for our members to.
If you didn't notice that there was a post editing time restriction, well there wasn't until a couple of weeks ago. I attempted to make a 15 minute editing cutoff time which prevents people from editing their posts after 15 minutes, this was done in an attempt to preserve older posts from being edited or removed (my reasons are quoted below).
However, when I made this change there was quite an unexpected uproar. There have been a threads started in a few different forums and therefore I have removed them so we can have a clean and tidy discussion about it in the one place.
Anyway quoted below was my reasoning and the post I made:
Due to the members requesting this I have increased the cutoff time to 1 Week. If you want to put in there say this thread it where you should do it - good or bad. I have also added a poll - its public so we get to see who votes for what.
After many posts and lots of PMs, I think the 'editing posts' topic deserves its own thread. This is to allow people to give their input and for our members to.
If you didn't notice that there was a post editing time restriction, well there wasn't until a couple of weeks ago. I attempted to make a 15 minute editing cutoff time which prevents people from editing their posts after 15 minutes, this was done in an attempt to preserve older posts from being edited or removed (my reasons are quoted below).
However, when I made this change there was quite an unexpected uproar. There have been a threads started in a few different forums and therefore I have removed them so we can have a clean and tidy discussion about it in the one place.
Anyway quoted below was my reasoning and the post I made:
Hi Guys,
Okay, in the past we actually allowed posts to be deleted. We thought it was no real biggy, however we did notice some posts just going missing. These were valuable posts, however the person who submitted the original post didn't want them there and therefore they just deleted them. We put a stop to this because forums are designed to be not only an active community and allow friendly discussions, it's also archive of information and that's one of the most valued part of this site.. The massive amount of information that helps out hobbyists every day. As you can imagine we changed this and made it so users couldn't delete posts.
Now, as you can imagine, instead of deleting posts people started to cotton onto being able to edit posts to nothing. I have experienced users simply wanting to leave ETO and deciding to remove all of their information by editing posts and overwriting the content with "Removed". And it's a real shame for people to search on Google for an electronics question, be directed to this site only to find answers removed and/or only parts of information. This is the main reason for now limiting the edit time on posts. There are also other reasons, for example some people feel like editing their original post to say "Resolved" when a member answers it correctly, or a now experienced member looks at a 2 year old post and feels like it was a stupid question to ask and simply edits it to say "...". In the end if we allow people to edit their posts forever we would have a very messy forum.
And remember if the cutoff period has past and you need a post to be edited for say spelling mistakes, or correcting information etc then the moderators and I don't have a problem with making the changes.
Due to the members requesting this I have increased the cutoff time to 1 Week. If you want to put in there say this thread it where you should do it - good or bad. I have also added a poll - its public so we get to see who votes for what.
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