How do you edit your own post if you make a mistake?

[Porkeypine]

Sick of the auto correct and something I reply to a post then go back to it and it gobbledygook

Like above, I missed the ‘s’ if ‘it’

Missed ‘a’ off it

See what I mean

You can't edit your post.

You can't. Use the preview function?

‘S’ 🤨🤪😤😩🤣

I’ve seen posts where people lines have been put through words or sentences though? I assumed they could go in to edit. Wonder how they do that

You can’t you can add crossed out text but not edit

There's a preview function.

You can’t edit your post once it’s posted and tbh if you could all the grammar fanatics and people that disagree with you would have nothing to point out - and that would make them very unhappy

time

The crossed out lines thing happens when you hit this - twice immediately before the sentence and immediately after

There's no preview on the app. I bloody wish there was!

I’m going to practice to see if it works here we go

And let’s -as it clearly- didn’t work the first time

Nahhh I can do the line thing?

—Last try the—

🙄🤯

Seriously use the preview button to check it works

The strike out feature isn't used for corrections, it's used mainly for comic effect!

You need to use double dashes to get the crossed out text like this

Oh cross post! Well done

Just use preview, I always do.

The crossed out thing isn't an edit, it's sort of an MN joke where you type something then cross out the bit you really want to say but shouldn't.

To cross out you do cross out but with no gaps between the dashes and the words, so cross out

Just use preview, I always do.

There's no preview on the app.

Ah, I didn't know that iklboo, I don't use the app.

If you’re using an iPhone (and possibly other phones) the double dash thing automatically corrects it to — , which won’t make the strike work. I find it easier to just select the italic button below the message box and select the styling options that way.

Twitter recently announced it wasn’t going to introduce an editing feature and I thought thank god. Can you imagine the underhanded things that people could do? If someone ‘liked’ an innocent post and then that person replaced it with a racist photo, for example. People wouldn’t be able to defend themselves.