Editing posts

@suzianne said
I don't.

Don't worry. It's out of your league.

@handyandy said
Don't worry. It's out of your league.

🙂


Awwww, you gotta respect her refined sensibilities

@karoly-aczel said
🙂


Awwww, you gotta respect her refined sensibilities

Sure. But what about mine?

@handyandy said
Sure. But what about mine?

It's implied, sir.

She needs the attention ...

@karoly-aczel said
It's implied, sir.

She needs the attention ...

You mean like you-know-who in the White House?

@wolfgang59 said
Has anyone else noticed we cannot edit posts when replying to them?
(apart from deleting text)

That means we cannot clarify text. For example explaining
who or what a pronoun in the original text stood for.

Is this an improvement?

No, it isn't.

If it was intended to combat tampering with quoted text, then it's a sledgehammer that prevents a legitimate and useful bit of editing [as you pointed out] presumably in an effort to stamp out misuse which the perpetrator could never get away with anyway.

@handyandy said
You mean like you-know-who in the White House?

🙂

@wolfgang59 said
Has anyone else noticed we cannot edit posts when replying to them?
(apart from deleting text)

That means we cannot clarify text. For example explaining
who or what a pronoun in the original text stood for.

Is this an improvement?

No it isn’t; but most of the changes in the last update aren’t improvements in my honest but probably unwelcome opinion.

@fmf said
No, it isn't.

If it was intended to combat tampering with quoted text, then it's a sledgehammer that prevents a legitimate and useful bit of editing [as you pointed out] presumably in an effort to stamp out misuse which the perpetrator could never get away with anyway.

The removal of the post search function was another huge loss to the appeal of the forums. I still don’t understand why that had to happen and why in this stage of the site’s evolution it cannot be repaired. But hey we have round avatars and more colour instead.

@handyandy said
You mean like you-know-who in the White House?

No one needs that much attention, not even you Andy! 😉

-VR

@wolfgang59 said
Has anyone else noticed we cannot edit posts when replying to them?
(apart from deleting text)

That means we cannot clarify text. For example explaining
who or what a pronoun in the original text stood for.

Is this an improvement?

No. Also, when you accidentally cut too much, you can't type it back in -- I have no Ctrl-Z on this phone.

@shallow-blue said
No. Also, when you accidentally cut too much, you can't type it back in -- I have no Ctrl-Z on this phone.

Dude, upgrade your phone.

@shallow-blue said
No. Also, when you accidentally cut too much, you can't type it back in -- I have no Ctrl-Z on this phone.

Let me guess you have the old flip phone? I had that for years before I upgraded. 😉

-VR

@shallow-blue said
No. Also, when you accidentally cut too much, you can't type it back in -- I have no Ctrl-Z on this phone.

Correct, you have to back page, reload and start again.
I don’t understand the strategy with this change as there wasn’t a problem with people misrepresenting other posters through adding text into their quoted replies anyway.

I’m reminded of the guy on Dragon’s Den, who invented a rubber cap to prevent a cucumber drying out. one of the dragons said to him “you’ve invented a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist...just slice the end of the cucumber off!”

@divegeester said

I’m reminded of the guy on Dragon’s Den, who invented a rubber cap to prevent a cucumber drying out. one of the dragons said to him “you’ve invented a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist...just slice the end of the cucumber off!”

Didn't one of the Dragons give him a job though? ...

Back to editing ....
when you delete some text you are replying to you can't put in ellipsis to show the omission, which really is dishonest. Perhaps they should be put in automatically?