remove the time limit on editing your own posts

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

About every single post I've made in code gallery has needed to be edited, and I'm sure this is true of most other people's as well.

In general, it is useful whenever you want to make a point in the first post of the thread so people will see it.

I think the circumstance of someone changing their post maliciously would be much more isolated than one of someone changing their post in order to benefit readers.

I don't know personally, but if that's true than perhaps long-term editing should be allowed in the scripting section. However, for the rest of the forum or any other forum, long-term editing should definitely be disabled, with a limit of ~12 hours.

Originally Posted by _Zelph

I've always been under the impression that quoting was a communication mechanism and not an archival utility

Yea, but because it helps communicate clearly it becomes an important part of the archival process (which occurs naturally on these and most other forums).

[WhiteDragon]

Originally Posted by Stephen

I don't know personally, but if that's true than perhaps long-term editing should be allowed in the scripting section. However, for the rest of the forum or any other forum, long-term editing should definitely be disabled, with a limit of ~12 hours.

This isn't built-in, and we've searched for mods to do it and found none that work with the current version of vBulletin here.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

This isn't built-in, and we've searched for mods to do it and found none that work with the current version of vBulletin here.

Then you should be well aware that this is purely conversational?

My presumption, ignoring that such modifications may not only be simple but also built into the system, has been that - regardless of what great features we would love to see added.

[Loriel]

yeah let's spend pages coming up with retarded rationalisations for arbitrarily limiting features that work just fine on every other goddamn forum