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An Edit Button

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HappyBloodBlackPumpkinEater · 28/10/2012 12:26

Please could we have an edit button for our posts in talk. It would be so much better to be able to edit out spelling mistakes and punctuation errors.

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Whooooosualsuspect · 28/10/2012 21:18

I'm not worried about spelling mistakes, it's the pedants that worry me. Grin

ZombieArmsDragOnTheFloor · 28/10/2012 21:18

If you don't like the level of control you have after you press submit, perhaps you should think twice before posting.

MummifiedBonkeyMollocks · 28/10/2012 21:20

I kind of see where you are coming from Liz but at the end of the day this is the internet, any one can read anything. If your not happy to be outed never say anything that can be traced back to you. Either namechange so your usual name is covered (what I do) or nc all the time (which you now do) .

Everyone has a choice as to what they post and how personal they go! Arses can be covered!

ZombTEE · 28/10/2012 21:21

"I post on other sites but there are none where I have such little control over what I've posted after I press submit. All other fora the posters have some control over their footprint on the internet."

You sound unhappy to me. Especially if you're still dwelling on something that happened 2 years ago and refusing to discuss it with HQ in a way in which they could help you.

Whatever. I'm going to bed now.

5 minute edit would be ace. Thanks HQ for maybe(?) considering it? [hgrin]

MummifiedBonkeyMollocks · 28/10/2012 21:23

That there should say 'either nc so your usual name is covered for more personal things^ ...'

I could probably be outed for my talking shite Grin

LizLemon030 · 28/10/2012 21:30

I only thought of it because of the title of this thread. I do remember it. It's not keeping me up at night but yes I do remember it as it was only two years ago. I also remember the way MN dealt with it. I'm not unhappy now thank you. I use Mn in a different way than I used to though. I used to be a recognised poster before the outing. I wouldn't want that now. Using the internet in a way that suits you doesn't mean you're 'unhappy' fgs Biscuit

ScarahStratton · 28/10/2012 21:49

Liz I don't think there is a 'hierarchy' at all. I posted a very sensitive thread about one of my DDs, looking for advice. I then had a major panic that she might see it and asked MNHQ to delete it. They refused, but they did move it to OTBT when I went back and asked.

I think it's very rare that a poster can have all their posts wiped. From what I've seen it only really happens when they're banned, for sock puppeting or similar.

LizLemon030 · 28/10/2012 22:02

What's OTBT?

I think that's terrible that you told them your concerns and they didn't delete it! Nothing seems to matter more than causing confusion on threads from what I have gathered. It is very hard for me to believe that there is not a hierarchy. I'm sure my distress was no less than Cod's distress when she was outed but yet all of her posts were deleted! I am glad about that for her sake. I don't grudge her the extra courtesy that was afforded to her. It was the right thing to do. I only wish that it was the standard way of dealing with things.

GhostShip · 28/10/2012 22:06

Well in the past they've deleted whole threads of my posts, they even offered to, so I agree it doesn't sound like them. And this was after they gave me a very polite telling off! :o

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HappyBloodBlackPumpkinEater · 28/10/2012 22:06

Liz, thank you for being candid. You have just as much right to add your experience here as anybody else has to have their say on the matter.

Using the preview button takes even longer to go from screen to screen and back again, and then refind the place in the post that needs changing. Often it takes so long, by the time the post reaches the thread, the conversation has moved on and it is taken completely out of context. To then try to explain would derail the thread even more and so it seems best to just leave it, but then everyone thinks nasty things about me that aren't true.

So my other options are to not post, or keep name changing. Hmm

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Sparklingbroomstick · 28/10/2012 22:08

Blimey the biscuits are coming out now. The Op only asked for an edit button, and a can of worms seems to have been opened.

GhostShip · 28/10/2012 22:09

I think you're being a bit dramatic. Seriously what sort of typos are you making that can make 'everyone think nasty things'?

It should stay as it is. being able to edit posts will cause all sorts of havoc especially in heated debates.

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HappyBloodBlackPumpkinEater · 28/10/2012 22:15

Seriously what sort of typos are you making that can make 'everyone think nasty things'?

Read it again. What I said was, it takes so long to construct a post as it is, to then also review before I post and go between screens, back and forth, re-edit it, and so forth, would mean that my post would then fall on a different page and no longer be read in the context it was initially written for. That has happened to me often (elsewhere) as I have tried to preview posts. There can be lots of twists and turns in a conversation, and I'm careful to not flame people or say things to offend, but you can take a friendly comment from the first page of a thread and insert it into the 5th page and it will read very differently.

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LizLemon030 · 28/10/2012 22:15

You're welcome HappyBloodBlack! I am not unhappy or dramatic. I've just lived and learned and I will go and name change again now!

GhostShip · 28/10/2012 22:18

Happy - which is why you quote, as you did in your last post. So then people know what you're replying to.

Unless you're on dial up it won't take that long to preview then send, it's just another click Confused

Or even just take the time to proof read first time.

I make mistakes, I just post the correction under neath. No biggie.

I do think it'd cause more harm that good having an edit button.

Sparklingbroomstick · 28/10/2012 22:18

All this name changing, I really don't get it. Sad

MaureenCognito · 29/10/2012 06:55

I agree that until you've been outed and left a trail for weirdos to trawl through and share with other people who then talk about you behind your back you have NO concept of how much you reveal that you'd not Necc say to others.
You couldn't have a forum on this basis if everyone was English and very "how do you do". It would be dull

MaureenCognito · 29/10/2012 06:58

I name change often. Am often easy to spot by old timers. that's fine. It's people from rl or even family you dontbwant to start reading every stupid thing you've ever typed since 2003

Also increasingly you notice newspapers trawling social media to find FB or twitter accounts the minute something comes to light. At least you can delete those.

AGiddyKipperInOneHand · 29/10/2012 08:01

Ghostship, I can't quote when on my phone, for one, and frankly, you have no idea how long it takes me or anyone else to type up a post! I will speak for myself, tyvm. You are welcome to say if you would use an edit button and point out pitfalls if it's abused. You cross a line when you tell another poster their account of their own experience is not true or valid!

I never said everyone needs an edit button, and I realise most people won't use it.

I deliberately haven't framed my request in language of need because it is just a juggle which annoys me. But it is an access issue for people who take longer to type (lots of reasons for this) who have dyslexia, etc. It would improve access for some.

AGiddyKipperInOneHand · 29/10/2012 08:02

Juggle, not juggle.

AGiddyKipperInOneHand · 29/10/2012 08:03

niggle

ceeveebee · 29/10/2012 09:15

Would have been quicker to preview then to have to type two subsequent correcting posts...

L01S · 29/10/2012 09:26

" I name change often. Am often easy to spot by old timers. that's fine. It's people from rl or even family you dontbwant to start reading every stupid thing you've ever typed since 2003"

Totally agree with this!! I know who MaureenCognito is [columbo I am] ;) but like you say, it'd be your neighbours and sisters in law and even friends that you wouldn't want to have access to your EVERY thought & post since 2003

Trills · 29/10/2012 09:27

Mumsnet moves too fast for even a limited time edit button to be safe from misuse.

L01S · 29/10/2012 09:30

And,,,, good point about media trawling mn for ideas. Also, I think that if you're on the MN FB page they might link popular /controversial threads, and any friend of an MN-er who comments might get to see the thread even if they never usually go on MN. YOu just never know who might stumble on to your post (and recognise themself or an event or incident)

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