Can we please have an editing thingy ?

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Hello,

I have been spending time at another forum. It's fine though, it's not parenting one.

Anyway, to the point.

This other forum has a little but you can go back into your post to edit it. It would be great for illiterate people like me who make many errors from time to time.

Can we have this ? Please.

It also has starts to rate threads but I don't want that here, it may cause a problem or 23.

Thanks in advance.

yes and NORMALLY folk say
"I edited this as i typed it all in text speak that woudl alienate my audience"

dont be poofs MNHQ

can I just annoy you all and point out that we actually have a preview button, so you can check your post before you submit it.

Why is it that people - me included - can't see mistakes when they type them, or when they preview them, but always when they have submitted them? I mean, you are looking at the exact same thing!!

The only person who uses edit at the moment is YMT - he always gets dates wrong in his posts & then changes it, leaving the 10 people who pointed it out looking like idiots.....

No, please, no edit button.

It makes no sense when things get edited, and I think in combination with MN's namechange facility it would encourage trollery.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

No editing. Would render the most interesting threads useless if people can go back and change their minds.

preview like the rest of us

no! some of us need to face up to our own failings

who would have thought this would provoke such strong reactions?!

I don;t need tohave such a button when flame is here lookin over my shoulder!!

wehn she isn;t here....well, ....I cope!

You might have wanted to preview that post psycho

see.....I need flame!!!

You whinge when I do it at the time though

No no no to an edit button!!!!!!

Preview your post. Read it backwards so that you read individual words rather than meaning. Install a spell checker.

No no no edit button!!!

Use Firefox, you luddites. It has a spellchecker. Doesn't recognise the word Firefox, mind.

Couldn't we have one to edit posts but not titles then? So people can't change from 'AIBU to aim projectiles at cats arses' to 'AIBU to be angry that my neighbour shot my cat up the arse', or whstever? Like all replies could be edited but not OPs?

i love the fact that firefox doesn't recognise itself. or mozilla

thefool did you know that Microsoft's spell checker didn't used to recognize Microsoft? I don't know if that is still true, but it sure used to be!

lol. You really would think they would sort that.

Wonder if my phone recognises Sony....

OMG

I cannot believe you are getting all excited and telling me to "bother your arse by checking".

Sometimes I am busy, I have no time to check.

I thought I would ask. Okay ?

eejits

and I have a spell check, I just wanted an edit too. Okay ?

editing isnt just for spelling errors, you may want to add something you forgot to initially

...which will then change the relevance of all subsequent posts, lou .....

not necessarily, it could be something like, oh i also forgot to say blah blah blah, which could be posted without altering any fundamental arguments

fora work with and without an editing facility, i've not had any issues with being on ones with editing privileges

mind you they also have a quote button as well, which means even if the op had changed their post drastically, someone often had the original one to refer back to

Can't see the point TBH. Either make another post adding the missed info or apologise for any typos if you want to.

I hate ones that do have an edit function as, often, subsequent posts don't make sense.

I forget stuff All the time. It means I have to post 3 times instead of once sometimes, although I am slighty hyperactive so that may explain that. Possibly.

lots of forums let you edit posts.
it leaves a mark 'this post edited on hhmmss'
you can restrict it so it can be editted in first 5 mins only (to correct a silly mistake)

Please?