To wish MNHQ would not only allow us to edit our posts...

[Swed]

but also allow us to edit other people's posts too?

AIBU?

If you read through your message before you post, that equates to editing.

RuleBritannis not really because you post and review in the same moment.

YANBU. I wish people would edit my posts for me.

Quite a few discussion board systems allow you to edit your post for a few minutes after posting, that is very useful.

No!

SuchProspects Thu 22-Mar-12 20:23:54

YANBU. I wish people would octopus my posts for me.

YANBU! The no edit thing here is terrible. You can't correct your grammar or spelling, which I like to do.

preview message button takes you to a screen where your post looks exactly as it will when you post it. You can edit it. Then you press post. It won't post until you press post.

Ohhh. I just did it then, then added this. Going to press post now

I wish people would write my post for me. I'm very lazy

"Go fuck yourself, Swed you far-arse, shit-face, fuckerrrrr"

could be altered for posterity to:

"Thank you, Swed, you're amazing"

really I should let DH check my spelling like in RL but that wouldn't be right would it. We make a good team but I must keep MN secret from him.

I would like timed edit thingie.

Noone seems very keen on the facility to edit others' posts?

ooh, the fun I could have with that.

I thought I'd settle for the ability to insert the apostrophes I forgot move the ones I placed incorrectly, by accident.

But your idea sounds fab, actually. Could I move other people's my apostrophes out of fellow posters' posts? ,I just keep finding them there. They must have escaped from my posts. Obviously.

ooh yes, imagine the larks in Pedants' corner.

I don't think the threads would make any sense at all if they were edited. People would go blind trying to find errors that 54 people had complained about in the OP, that the OP had slyly changed afterwards. And all those bitchy comments would be changed, too, so we wouldn't know who was an utter twat.

Can you imagine the arguments?

"How dare you call me a cunt?"
"No I didn't. Read back."
"Yes you did, you cunt. You've edited it."
"Now you're calling me a cunt.".
"No I didn't. Read back.".

Ad infinitum.

Is it national Ask For Stuff That's Already Been Rejected week?

Well, other forums have a "this post was edited at [time]" for "poster explains reasons" stamp on the bottom of an edited post.

SoupDragon - I don't think anyone has ever requested the ability to edit other people's posts.

MardyBra - LOL

Thank you, Swed, you're amazing.

Looks like they've implemented it already then!

That would be good.

Then when we say something stupid and someone calls us on it later in the thread we can change/delete it and deny all knowledge of it and nobody can copy it and paste it later on to show you up?
Is that what you mean??