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Post #22 by LCGuy
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateFri, 24 Apr 2009 - 23:55
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/edit-posts.17174/
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So you're saying that the ability to edit posts past 60 minutes is comparable to driving a car at 200 km/h?

You actually can physically take advantage of that feature if your car has it. It just happens that doing so is illegal almost everywhere. I never understood why vehicles capable of going faster than 150 km/h are street legal anyway.

However, the ability to edit posts past a 60 minute interval doesn't place any lives in jeopardy, is not illegal in most of the world (I don't know Iran's position on this), and is actually a convenient feature prevalent in forum software almost since the invention of forum software. One of the earliest systems, YaBB had this feature at least as far back as 2000. The feature to impose a time limitation before you can no longer edit is actually a feature that came much later.
My point is...yes, the system does support it, just like how some cars are capable of being driven at 200 km/h. But does that mean that that feature should be used? No.

At the end of the day, the world is not a perfect place, nor are the people in it perfect. If it were, we wouldn't need mods, just like how we wouldn't need police.

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