Relevant grouping changed, let me know if you encounter problems.

Thanks for that Coral, seems to work fine.

Winston,

Laugh, the avatar is actually Sydney around about this time last year!  Maybe I should replace it with some hail pictures I took last Sunday *grin*...

I see you are in Nth Ryde, I am in Marsfield near Epping Rd and this was the most hail I had ever seen in my life, kids were tobogganing in parks near me over an hour after it had finished, and there was still pockets of hail on the ground over 14hours after the storm!!

The wierd thing was that about 1km down the road towards Eastwood, it looked like they didn't get anything at all?! I have a few good pic's too.

Back to your edit/delete rules, good ideas there, although if you look at some of my posts, I edit them a number of times (usually to fix grammatical errors or the occassional technical stuff up).

Regards

Edited September 10, 200421 yr by tonymy01

I'm bucking the trend here but I don't think edits should be allowed at all! At the most, edits should be allowed only a few minutes after posting.

Ad-hoc editing encourages sloppiness. "If you can't say something properly the first time then don't say it at all" I reckon. Editing posts after the fact compromises people who have responded to the original and ruins the sentiment of the thread.

Make people consider what they post before they post it!

Thanks for this site Coral. It's very well done.

Editing posts after the fact compromises people who have responded to the original and ruins the sentiment of the thread.

That's why I'm surprised that the "Add Edit by line" isn't compulsory, like some other forums. Then, even if people don't know what you've changed, they know that you have changed something. It's then up to you to let them know.

- Miles.

I believe the "Add Edit By" not being defaulted came up in development discussions for the Invision guys - I remember reading something to the effect that they will introduce change tracking in a future release in an attempt to moderate disjointed discussions.

Tony - I work in North Ryde, but live up the road near the Stamford. Hail was tremendous. A friend of ours in Busaco Road said that there was no hail at all, only 1km away or so. Bizarre!

Mark - for the reasons you stated, editing was turned off. It does indeed compromise the integrity of a discussion!

I'd still like to see limited editing for the reasons I've posted before. Sure you might get a few yahoos abusing the facility (they can be disciplined or counciled by a moderator), but does that mean that everyone has to suffer due to their antics? I'd hope not.

Edited September 10, 200421 yr by DrP

Same can apply to many things in life.

The day's leeway is provided for limiting editing.

Given a spate of a few members getting a bit annoyed and then going and deleting or editing their posts, the following has been implemented:

- Members can no longer delete their own posts

- You can edit your post for a preset period of time before it becomes locked.

Members do take the effort to make the posts, and others reply to them. It makes for disjointed discussions if members are just needlessly deleting/editing posts because they had a difference of opinion.

This has been invoked because of a number of incidents over the past few weeks. As always, open to feedback.

I think this is a very good step. what is the time period you can edit a post? - perhaps already mentioned in this thread apologies if done already. some times you do say something and then when you read it when posted doesn't read right or look right.

Also what is the protocol if an own post needs to be deleted for some perfectly good reason - should we PM you coral?

Good idea, Coral.

I've recently looked back at the Iron Chef PVR Competition thread (Kitchen Stadium), and it is now truly bizzare, with the delete-fest of a certain ex-member of the forum making some interesting non sequiturs! (EG: datvman's "like our school, public, and HOT IN SUMMER and FREEZING in winter" seemingly in response to the antics in Kitchen Stadium).

The only problem with not being able to delete old posts, is that I'll never get to remove a certain posting I once made where I was asleep at the wheel, and, in hindsight, sound just a little clueless! However, I'll accept that in exchange for others now not being able to show such marvelous 20-20 hindsight wrt some of their previous theories which magically disappear when discredited!

(EG: datvman's "like our school, public, and HOT IN SUMMER and FREEZING in winter" seemingly in response to the antics in Kitchen Stadium).

when did i say this, and who to, and was that directed as an insult to me! im sorry santa, but i am confused (VOTE LABOUR)

You have one day's grace to edit posts. Any post to be deleted should be PM'd to me.

I would prefer that this never had to be invoked, but I am glad that all of you understand the requirement for it.

I'am very pleased with this development. With members like captainatomic having a hissy fit and deleting all their posts was a ridiculous way for the member to act.

Is there only one member with the ability to edit/delete posts (ie Coral)?

bugger! I missed that!

which thread/forum?

Quite a few.

Yeah same - the day's grace should help you, and should minimize 'anger-deletion'.

Coral,

Maybe a stupid suggestion but a day or 10 minutes - what's the difference? What about not allowing a deletion if someone has REPLIED or if x number of people have viewed?

A day's grace usually allows the legitimate persons to correct their posts. This action was invoked because of members who, a month or more into their membership, decide that they've had it on for someone, and then turn around and delete their posts in a "well stuff them" capacity.

The issue is then apparrent because others have invested time and effort into developing the thread (which might actually have been a quite helpful one) to then have it turn into a disjointed mess which ends up only confusing the people who might need the help.