Can we have an edit facility?

[mummyhill]

I keep realising that I have forgotten something after hitting post could we have an edit button so that we can change stuff if we get it wrong?

Instead of having to add an extra post like this all the time

Hmmm, the 'gotcha' with an edit facility is, people add things in the middle of a thread, and the posts afterwards don't make any sense ...

Yes was just going to put that NQC.

I think it would cause a few probs, although it might make things easier for mn towers for deleting posts etc.

The preview message button is a way of checking before you post!

I've been looking at another forum where they have editing which seems to work but not sure it's necessary...it is more of a dinner party site than mn. They do have an interesting feature in the forum though where you can post on a thread either by posting as on topic or as chit chat off topic if the latter your posts appear as grey, so the really relevant posts stand pout more...

I don't like edits - you can take back what you have said after insulting people

Zippit - Dinner party site, eh?

hmmmm

We talked about this on the "libel laws" thread... I think the consensus was that being able to ADD to a post would be a good idea - how many times has a thread gone Pete Tong because the OP wasn't clear or omitted an essential piece of info - but that editing was not a good idea, for the reasons noted.

So if I had edited my last post, this would appear below it but in the same post, IYSWIM, making it clear that it was a later addition.

yeah i certainly wouldnt want people to be able to take back things after they have insulted me.

which they seem to do readily and very hurtfully of late.

whereas i tend to be less personal and more general with my insults

you bunch of fucking hippies [edit]

sally just fart - and the will disperse

I still want the strikethrough facility.

Who has insulted you Custy, you grumpy cow fluffy sweetness, you?

On another forum I'm on, they have a post-posting edit facility where you edit for, I think, up to 5 minutes without indicating an edit - as everyone makes stipuid spleleling and tpying mistooks - and up to 30 minutes with a tag indicating the post has been edited.

This prevents people sneakily "retconning" their arguments once they've been countered to make them look more reasonable, and/or to make other people look silly.

Oh, they would, believe me...

NO.

Let's not and say we did.

I am on several forums with Edit facilities and I think it is great if you are just genuinely tidying up. My typing is crap so often I am thinking quicker than I type so make mistakes and judging by the last thread I started it would have been better if I could have edited a few bits for typos and grammar cos I hit the "post message" or "post" too quickly at times.

PAYE

pay as you edit

if you REALLY REALLY regret saying something

edit for £1

there you go mumsnet - you can now buy your children another pony each