Thanks for the answer, Tom. I understand the desire to keep people from "revising" their own posts to remove poorly thought out comments.
I only noticed because in Trash80's thread about upgrading his G4, I made reference to a display utility but named it incorrectly. We all know that Google indexes the 68kMLA, and I wanted to correct the name of the tool to avoid search engine confusion. Of course, the post was more than 60 minutes old and so was un-editable.
Personally, I don't see the need to prevent edits. Sure, sometimes flame wars get interesting because of after-the-fact edits, but in general I think that the utility of edits to the otherwise well behaved community outweighs the few infantile argument about users editing out comments that everyone has already seen. But not being a moderator or admin, obviously my voice and opinion have no weight. This site is interesting to me because it has Mac users, not because of how it is laid out, which version of phpBB it uses, or how it is administered. I try to avoid conversations that aren't related to Macs, so I'll just leave it at that.
Peace,
Drew
I only noticed because in Trash80's thread about upgrading his G4, I made reference to a display utility but named it incorrectly. We all know that Google indexes the 68kMLA, and I wanted to correct the name of the tool to avoid search engine confusion. Of course, the post was more than 60 minutes old and so was un-editable.
Personally, I don't see the need to prevent edits. Sure, sometimes flame wars get interesting because of after-the-fact edits, but in general I think that the utility of edits to the otherwise well behaved community outweighs the few infantile argument about users editing out comments that everyone has already seen. But not being a moderator or admin, obviously my voice and opinion have no weight. This site is interesting to me because it has Mac users, not because of how it is laid out, which version of phpBB it uses, or how it is administered. I try to avoid conversations that aren't related to Macs, so I'll just leave it at that.
Peace,
Drew