Flashkit functionality changed?

[silentweed]

i got this when trying to edit a post..ive never notcied it before ..is this a new feature?


The administrator has specified that you can only edit messages for 10 minutes after you have posted. This limit has expired, so you must contact the administrator to make alterations on your message.

[VENGEANCE MX]

New feature since a couple of months ago (there was a stickied thread about it). Apparently some people were abusing their editing rights, and therefore messing up topics, so there's now a limit on how long your post can exist until you're no longer allowed to change it.

[gerbick]

read this...

people were indeed abusing that power. they were going backwards and deleting posts where they once helped somebody out of spite and taking away from the community they helped.

[silentweed]

cheers for the heads up guys.... although i think 10 mins is way too much of an overkill.. i think 6 hours would be perfect!! I think most people probably do 90%+ of their updates within 6 hours of posting a post..

plus how much damage can a digruntled member do if its set to 6 hours!!

[FlashLackey]

i second that. 6 hours seems like a win-win. even 24 hours would probably stop the abuse.

[Chris_Seahorn]

Maybe it's because I've always posted mainly in the tech forums...or maybe it's because of the nature of how I post.....but the edit rule has a negeative aspect (or a few actually).

In the tech forums I'm almost always dealing with multiple files, previews to show it running and passing files back and forth. The attachment size is so small a lot of times I would post a link to files from my server. If my logs showed nutty hits for any given month I would bounce back and edit out some live links to previews and files that I couldn't attach due to size and linked from the post. Now....my logs are high again...I'll have to render a lot of links dead and will be unable to clean up. I'm currently maintaining over 350 live links of all kinds from previous posts and I will most likely just have to get into the habit of not linking at all. Can't really rely on PM since a lot of users turn it off and that really doesn't help the rest of users (what is the point of a forum if I have to send solutions via PM that benefit one person?) so I'll just pass those kinds of posts by. I can't assume I can step back within 15 minutes to clean up a file preview or download since some users don't always reply within 15 minutes so it's too risky to post links of any kind. Basically....it's going to change a lot and in a negative way as it relates to me. Sure all my posts will be unedited and intact now.......but existing ones will get impacted in an ancillary way...rendered just as dead from the backend since they can't be cleaned up from the frontend and future ones will be bland (again...in the case of me ...not speaking for everyone).

I'm not goig to lie...I miss the old way and while I understand the reason for the new way....the paranoia of it will just create a new posting dynamic just as debilitating and just as negative as the reason this new rule exists. Sure we'll have plenty of unedited posts but very few with any meat in cases like mine where people were linking items of use, previews or downloadable files due to attachment size. Every single person who knows the rule exists now thinks hard about what they post....or should they post this or that since they will get boxed out from it later. While maybe they should...how much doesn't get posted that might have AND might have been unedited after the fact. A few bad apples ruined the whole barrel on this one. It makes for an odd experience compared to the golden days of posting at FK IMO.

[carly1979]

whilst i totally agree that removing hte edit button is very very annoying........

surely going back and removing links is not really any different to just making them dead links?

[Chris_Seahorn]

A link removed is a link not seen. The larger part of every post remains. A link shown and trapped...but rendered dead... is completely different. Like I said...not a big deal for the future but definitely changes how I personally post as well as a few of the users I know who also used to post links from their site as help which they would maintain for a month or so and go back later (if they chose to remove them for whatever reason....mainly because it's a drain on their resources and they were meant to help at the time and also was the only way to make the files accessable to all). When edited out after the fact....new visitors to the threads would never know they existed and old users would have already grabbed what they linked to.