Where did the EDIT button go? (testing 1 2 3)
 

The EDIT button seems to have disappeared on my old posts...? I restarted puter, no difference.

I still see EDIT button on this post. Have the settings been changed so we can only edit for a certain amount of time now? At the bottom of my old posts it does say "You may edit your posts".

I think a couple settings did get changed around this week. I think it might have been actually a bug that posts were given infinity as the time period for edits and that got fixed. That said I think we might be able to make it so that titles can be edited whenever still. I'll see what I can find out.

Ive had the same problem for the last 2 days.

I always thought it was weird how you could go back a few years and change old posts. Im not on any other forums that allow that so it sounds like a bug for sure. I've gone back to look for info/posts I recalled from a long time ago and in one case the user had decided to part ways with canreef. Unlike most who jump ship this individual went and replaced ALL their old posts with a decimal.

I prefer it like this. People also can't back out of comments they've made unless done so within a reasonable time.

I agree it is nice to change thread titles. I also don't know of another forum that allows that but I dig.

What is the new time frame? I know with tank journals, people usually keep updating the top post in a thread with the latest info, etc?

Here's the latest answer :)

we've reverted back to allowing one hour for edits on the original title and post. This was done to prevent people from removing all the content from "for sale" posts. We felt that original post and price were an important part of the thread for historic purposes, ie, someone wants to know what item X typically gets posted for.
While we realize some people update their thread with "new pics posted", etc, we thought that was rare enough that those people could just post on the end of their thread to bring it back to the top.
We'll look around and see if we can restrict that to the buy/sell forums only..

Good stuff Brad works for me.

Unfortunately it does look like we're out of luck for thread title edits, I can't find any secondary path to editing a thread title.

Ah well I'll start a new build thread someday soon anyways right? :mrgreen:

Aw, that sucks. Now I can't edit my first post with my most recent FTS or title with "Pics Nov 14" or add more growth sequence photos to an old thread or edit/add more info to my algae and chemistry pages... :( I really liked this option that CanReef used to have. :(

In forum view, can you double-click on the title and edit it that way?

Just tried...didn't seem to work...provided I know what you mean. ;)

Try it now?

Works for 2 seconds while the page loads, and I get spit out onto the thread.

Try clicking in the box but not on the text itself. Took me a few tries to get the hang of it myself.

Ok, wait that works, I just have to double click off the link.

:) ?

Ya, thanks! That's cool...now how about edit the text again! ;) :p

ya i am looking to change the name of my thread.

You still can, just double click the title box and an edit box will pop up. ... has to be from the forum view though. Ie., you can't do it when you're viewing your thread, only when viewing thread titles in the forum it's in. It should work, Myka was able to do it. :p

It works. It's the way I've always done it.

So I guess if I want to add some text to my algae page (as someone recently requested) I'm going to have to ask a moderator to do it for me?

yup, or just add a post :biggrin:

Took some "practice" but I got it figured out. Thanks!

Ya, but that makes it difficult/annoying for people to sift through a bunch of replies to find more info that they likely don't even know is there. :lol:

make them work for it :razz:

Being able to edit posts was handy when people have a whole bunch of items for sale and they could just edit the first post to what is sold and what is still available. Having to sift through pages of posts or the seller getting tons of PM's asking if this or that is still for sale isn't going to be much fun. Just my 2 cents.

Yes, that's what I want to do. I was hoping to do this as the corals were spoken for, but I guess I'll do an update post a couple of times a day. It's sure to cause some conflicts though... first come first served, hopefully no hard feelings :sad:

On the SaskReef website you can go back to edit anytime. It handy for tank Journals for sure!

Yeah now I'm leaning towards favoring a return to the old ways. The power we had before was rarely ever abused and It's pretty obvious it was a handy thing to have.

I personally prefer the old way as well, works great for for sale items and as I recall it was really useful during the nano contests. I'm not sure I see any advantages to this new way since this is a fish forum and not a legal one so editing old posts should be up to the discretion of the original poster and moderators. Also I don't really see how searching through old for sale posts for comparative pricing is an advantage.

However having said that I'm not trying to be difficult or convince anyone to switch it back, not my site so whatever is decided is fine with me. In the end it really doesn't matter.

No worries, feedback is fair.

Speaking as a user and not a moderator, I can offer the perspective that I always appreciate being able to search on prices when I'm trying to sell something. I always look up the last 2-3 asking prices of something I'm selling, like if I have a RBTA clone or something just to get an idea of what the going rate is. I always get tripped up when I find posts and the entire content is just one word "SOLD" and I kinda wish people wouldn't do that. At that point we might as well just delete old buy/sell threads after a certain age but then of course we get needing to determine how best to define a cut-off point and so on. Anyhow without trying to get too much off into the weeds all I meant to say is I'm one who appreciates searching on a price (for what my opinon is worth anyhow, I know that some people are looking at my post right now and just seeing a blank white box instead of "blabbity blabbity yackity yack yack Whee!" but that's a whole other matter anyhow.)

All you really need by the sounds of things is another rule. Just like how putting a price up is now mandatory, so now make it mandatory to leave the price.

I'm certainly guilty of editing for sale posts and leaving the one word "sold" but I thought that was best. Now I know otherwise so quite simply I won't delete everything from now on, well not that I can now :wink:

you didn't just really say that, did you?? :) Generally we get flack for too many "rules" -lol

I'm trying to think of a way around this, as some people are really upset about this change and we don't want her to be sad forever :)

:rolleyes:

And rules are awesome!

I have to say I perfer the idea of being able to edit posts. I edited many of posts in the past ie when I had velvet go through my system I'd update the 1st post so everyone could see how things where without having to sift through all the pages. I also do that with my tank journals and it's nice in the buy/sell when someone has several items for sale to quickly look and see on the 1st page what's still available and what's pending to someone else, also saves the buyer from getting many pm's for something already pending to someone else.

So I'd rather there be a rule stating that the items for sale and prices remain up and not deleted so others can see what it was for sale and have a reference for price wise.

I'm kind of for the new way:

1. It makes people accountable for what they say.
2. If there is information to be shared, why not put in the reference library? That way people don't have to come across posts made by individuals with links in signatures. If one would still like to have signature links they could lead back to one central information depot.
3. I'm not sure about others but I generally miss information added to posts in the middle of the thread, especially if it's one I have subscribed too. If I've been through the thread once I tend to jump right to the "Last Page" to find updates and new information.

Ok, I've turned it back on (I think) and I'll post a request in the buy/sell forums to leave all content intact. We'll try that for a while to see how it goes.

They just added that, did they not. Before it was like most boards, except Canreef. Limited or no editing.

I dont really care one way or the other either. I did however like to be able to edit.

Good point someone made though, besides the many good reasons members wish to edit it also allows some to "edit" sometime after posting, their "hit the post button before thinking edit". :lol: Me thinks I have done that, so will leave it at that. :lol: