An Edit Button

[HappyBloodBlackPumpkinEater]

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.

LizLemon030: we're still most happy to look into your problem with deleting posts if you'd care to mail in, as we suggested. Tis most odd that you say Olivia phoned you. We very very rarely do that (and don't have a record of people's phone numbers).

On another note, we'd like to remind people that, although frequent nickname-changing is completely fine, we would be concerned by people nickname-changing on the same thread in a way that could be misleading.

I agree with Trills.

@TheDoctrineOfSnatch

I agree with Trills.

Yes. She is quite right.

Reckon there could be 5/6 new posts within that 15-second timeframe for an edit.

It would undoubtedly make for some confusion.

What I would really like, in the context of mumsnet, is a reply to post option, so that I could respond to posts even when the thread had moved on by umpteen posts.
But I think that is probably a bit like asking for the moon on a stick.

I tihnk it would just make extra work for HQ, and bygum, they moan enough as it is.

And, meh, what's an odd misplaced letter between friends? My concern it would turn into a foray into gas lighting by sinister folks.

Princess - can you not just c and p the post and reply? That's what I do.

Not in favour of an edit button - would cause chaos

im after lois now

Yes but if it's pages after the post you want to respond to, then it all feels slightly irrelevant.
plus cutting and pasting on the iPhone is a pita

Oh I do it anyway even if I come to the thread late!

To Mumsnet, I don't like the inference that I'm lying, or remembering it wrong. It is not 'odd' that I say Olivia rang me. She did. I must have emailed my number to Olivia and she DID ring me. She was very pleasant and polite but no, my posts weren't going to be deleted even though that was what I wanted.

Are you saying that the policy has now changed? Are you saying that you're now prepared to delete all the posts under the user name that I was using at that time? That is all I ever wanted.

Mumsnet, I've emailed you my old screen name and requested that all posts attached to that name are deleted.

Who is changing names on this thread ?! Weirdos.
I need a new name.

I need a bigger notebook.

yeah, who'd do that? :-|

How odd to keep name changing on one thread.

Conductors picot usable on Duke asparagus.

( that was secret code by the way)

I wonder if any of the Techs have details on the fastest ever threads.

00:00 thread started.
How many posts before 00:05?

Sorry about name changing in the same thread, it's new to me and am still getting the hand of the idea of it. It isn't something I've done on other forums I am on regularly as they don't allow it.

anyway, looks like MNHQ has spoken on the subject of the edit button, so I will bow out.