Unable to edit my posts

[Alex0paul]

Christ sake. Its only a bleeding edit option. I have to say you have gone way over the top about it.

[PaulTheSoave]

Whats all 'appening 'ere then?

Calm down, calm down. I just wanted to go to sleep and you keep me all from my bed.
I suggest the discussion is held between the 2 in PM or Mail / telephone format. Entre deux so to say.

[dantuck_7]

Just seen whats happened here. Call in the UN peacekeepers!

Seriously, there are more important things to worry about. But I did quite like the edit option to correct for spelling mistakes etc.

[kellie-text]

Just seen whats happened here. Call in the UN peacekeepers!

Seriously, there are more important things to worry about. But I did quite like the edit option to correct for spelling mistakes etc.

I agree.

This is a great forum and we dont want it ruined like whats happened on other forum's. I love the snooker forum - its the main thing i had my laptop for!!

[gingerale]

Glad to see the threads are opened again.

So how is the new editing function planned to be?
I think it should be answered and discussed, there was even a discussion and a poll about the users crediting function (or how it was called, don't remember) some months ago.

Why should only a few selected members have the option to change their posts just because 'one disgruntled member' (?) as I understood decided to delete all their posts?
I just don't see the point. Would someone please explain? It can't be an aesthetic reason to make the site more 'rough and ready'? It's sort of controlled discussion then.
It's an international forum with lots of data, I really think every member should be able to edit their posts, be it for grammatical reasons or updates whatsoever.

Thanks to everyone who puts their efforts in this board.

[gingerale]

Just to bring it back, that's how the reputation feature was discussed
http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board...ead.php?t=9800

[sunny3909]

I think the edit feature should be brought back.As far as misuse of the feature goes,I think appropriate action should be taken by the site administration against the concerned member.

[snooky147]

Glad to see the threads are opened again.

So how is the new editing function planned to be?
I think it should be answered and discussed, there was even a discussion and a poll about the users crediting function (or how it was called, don't remember) some months ago.

Why should only a few selected members have the option to change their posts just because 'one disgruntled member' (?) as I understood decided to delete all their posts?
I just don't see the point. Would someone please explain? It can't be an aesthetic reason to make the site more 'rough and ready'? It's sort of controlled discussion then.
It's an international forum with lots of data, I really think every member should be able to edit their posts, be it for grammatical reasons or updates whatsoever.

Thanks to everyone who puts their efforts in this board.

A member editing and deleting posts can very quickly make a topic extremely hard to follow. Editing should only be allowed for spelling and for the few that have to edit posts in competions and such, otherwise if someone goes on the rampage and starts deleting their content the board will look awful.

[dantuck_7]

Would it be possible to limit the amount of editing?

Put in a check that say no more 20% of a post is removed. Or as was mentionned earlier a time limit of ten minutes to edit a post. Spelling mistakes are normally the edit that people make.

[moondan]

Being from 606, for a minute I thought I was There.

Nice to see a bit of fire on here.

[dannyd0g]

Being from 606, for a minute I thought I was There.

Nice to see a bit of fire on here.

Is it ?

Well sorry for being "holier than though" but i really dont like to see that sort of thing on here.

It may be entertaining for some, but I dont think it would do this forum any good for there to be too many 'discussions' that become quite that heated.

[Robert602]

Providing no unforeseen problems come up I think we'll have a solution shortly. Ferret's going to try installing an edit manager that will remember previous versions of a post (a bit like wikipedia's edit history), and then we'll turn editing back on for everyone.

[ferret]

I will install the mod but later tonight, sorry just preping for a meeting at the moment and got loads to do.

[dantuck_7]

Hopefully I'm speaking for quite a few of the members on here.

I think you should get in touch with Hegeland and offer him an invite back. It would be very sad to see someone with 2000-3000 posts being banned/quitting the board. He often posted eurosport and bbc schedules and I recently found out through him that ROS played Earl Strickland in the Mosconi Cup. I'm waiting for some more details of this!

It all seems very unneccessary - just put it down to two people have bad days and over-reacting.

Hege it would be good to see you back.

[Robert602]

Providing no unforeseen problems come up I think we'll have a solution shortly. Ferret's going to try installing an edit manager that will remember previous versions of a post (a bit like wikipedia's edit history), and then we'll turn editing back on for everyone.

Just put this on so editing is back.

dan - Hege did say he wouldn't let this put him off the forum, and I really hope it won't. He is of course more than welcome.