How to edit previous posts

Help required in editing a post a made some months back

[Farhan]

Sorry to sound a bit Dumb, but i really need to edit a post a made a couple of months back. I have read the help section and it says that you may edit a post by clicking the "user edit" link, which I don't see anywhere in the thread. Is it something I am missing or what?

Thanks in advance :)

[Dante_Maure]

The user edit function is only available for a limited time after you make the post.

Send a sticky to the forum moderator with the edit you are needing to make and I'm sure they'll be happy to help you.

<edited for chronically poor grammar>

[edited by: Dante_Maure at 9:27 am (utc) on Jan. 7, 2003]

[Marcia]

Beat me to it, Dante :)

Stickymail me the URL with the edit and I'll see to it.

[Farhan]

WOW! That was real Quick!

Sticky mailed to your Marcia. Please consider :)

[Marcia]

Done!

[Dante_Maure]

Beat me to it, Dante

Hey... I charge by the hour for my beatings. ;)

<stickys her an invoice>

[Tor]

The user edit function is only available for a limited time after you make the post.

What time limit are we talking about Dante_Maure?

[digitalghost]

If it is a really embarrassing error, about 30 seconds... :)

I think it is two hours. Not quite sure on that but I'm checking.

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[edited by: digitalghost at 9:55 am (utc) on Jan. 7, 2003]

[Dante_Maure]

If it is a really embarrassing error, about 30 seconds...

Heh.

Thank Heavens for the two hour grace period.

I've had some posts that were simply cursed. Used the entire two hours, more than a dozen edits, and still had to sticky a mod later for an adjustment.

[Tor]

So you are saying that is`s a 2 hour window after I posted that I can edit my own posts?

[Marcia]

Two hours is it. But typos are so common they don't bother anyone, so it's really no big deal, we see them all day.

[Dante_Maure]

Dang. This time you beat me to it Marcia. LOL

<voids the earlier invoice>

As for typos... I can spell. It's just my fingers that can't. ;)

[Brett_Tabke]

Correct Tor. The edit option is there to correct anything you wish with a recent post. It is long enough of a time window to do that, but not change the context of a post after other replies have been made.

[vitaplease]

Brett,

I would love it if you could add that yellow marker as sign of a personal posting in a thread to all threads in the past.

It makes looking for old threads so much easier.

Does this take too many resources?

thanks.

[Brett_Tabke]

I've thought about it alot VitaPlease, but the amount of database space required would be huge. Take mine for example, it would be 10k times 2chars for the forum, and 6 chars for the post number. That would equate to over 100k of pointers just for me. Those would have to be read and parsed on every page view or forum list - YIKES, pages would take 20-30 seconds to display. I can't think of a hack or a simple way around having to parse all those pointers.