Time Limit On Editing

Anthony Parsons

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The time limiting on editing in the usergroups... is that only for personal conversations?

Is there a way to limit editing posting content?
 
I am curious as to people's opinion on the time-limited editing issue.
I currently have a 48 hour limit on my boards, but get some requests to edit posts after the limit.
Anyone have horror stories to share about allowing unlimited editing? :)
 
Anyone have horror stories to share about allowing unlimited editing? :)

One time I had a user rage quit. He had thousands of posts and he edited them all to remove the content of each post. I had to go into a backup, isolate the relevant post records, and manually merge those records into the current database.

Now I allow 30 days for editing instead of unlimited.
 
I had exactly the same Jake.

Fortunately I was online while the user was doing it so I calmly banned them and restored the lost post content.

I bet that annoyed them even more :D
 
Yep, this is why I'm asking as well, as I believe its an essential aspect that is missing, because I could not convert my main forum without the ability to limit post editing, as I implemented for the same reasons as above with people going nuts in a frantic outburst and suddenly a thousand or more posts say ************ in them. Whilst it can be undone in VB... that is mighty painful post by post.
 
I am curious as to people's opinion on the time-limited editing issue.
I currently have a 48 hour limit on my boards, but get some requests to edit posts after the limit.
Anyone have horror stories to share about allowing unlimited editing? :)

Attachments get deleted, content changed to different things. There's no record and things become "he said/she said". It's a nightmare. The limit will save the hassle. Besides, I find that users just reply to their post or submit a new one after they find out they can no longer edit.
 
Jake and Brogan are quite generous with their post edit limit. ;-)

For me, I can't think of a reason anyone would need more than a couple of days to go back and change what they posted.
 
For me, I can't think of a reason anyone would need more than a couple of days to go back and change what they posted.

Users that maintain FAQ posts where information is constantly appended/updated would not like this feature. I could see using an edit time limit in particular areas on a forum, instead of an all or nothing setup.
 
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