Forums: Where's the goddamn edit button.

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  • 2 years ago
  • The lack of an edit tool for your own posts is kind of annoying, as I remember it being here in the past. Users should be able to edit their own posts for spleling and conFUCtKent, no? I enjoy writing, by which I mean rambling unsolicited, and the sight of unfixable flaws in my otherwise perfectly crafted fun-size dissertations fills me with suicidal depression.

    If there actually is an edit tool and I just haven't found it, you can tell me I'm dumb and retarded. But then you must tell me where it is.
  • 2 years ago
  • Lol, same issue here man (in terms of errors). I simply copy my previously flawed comment, paste in the comment section, fix my mistakes, delete previous comment, and post edited comment in a jiffy. Seems reasonable to me. It wouldn't be fair to be able to edit your comments because sometime people respond to them, and if you change it their comment simply wouldn't make sense and they'd have to change theirs, and etc, etc *cue chain reaction of nonsense*. Lol.
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  • 2 years ago
    • Dan
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    @Narrator Yes, this is a habit you and @Diaigma are notorious of doing, f*cking up my responses :P
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  • 2 years ago
  • @narrator What you have to do is not reasonable because you're doing the exact function of editing, only in a c*mbersome pain-in-the-ass way, where an edit feature would streamline the process. And by "content" fixes I meant simply improving the coherence of your original message, not changing your message. I guess it would be up to each user to be responsible for how he edits. But past forum layouts minimized this by only allowing you to edit posts that were at the end of threads and not yet responded to.

    I think the larger problem is that the streamlining of much of the forum and comment features have made it harder to make longer posts by confining all typing space to a small inflexible window without tools, previewing or editing features.
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