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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 8:36 pm Post subject: Edited posts

When you edit a post it displays a message at the bottom of the post such as:

Quote:

Last edited by Rob R on 05 Nov 2009 11:33; edited 1 time in total

Would it be possible to display the same message when the post has been edited by someone other than the author of the post?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 8:41 pm Post subject:
Not as far as I know

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 8:46 pm Post subject:
Not without a software change. A.

Rob R

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Location: York

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 8:49 pm Post subject:
Strange that it should say 'last edited by' then. Can it then be removed from a post when it is edited by the author?

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 9:23 pm Post subject:
Try it & see what happens tried & no I cant edit the edit by message Last edited by RichardW on Thu Nov 05, 09 9:32 pm; edited 2 times in total

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 9:24 pm Post subject:
there will, at least, be a record of who edited posts in the moderators log.. so should it ever come up as an issue, it could be traced. moderators could type in an edited thing too, if they wanted to

RichardW

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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 9:33 pm Post subject:
I think if a mod need to alter a message it would be polite to put a message in. Perhaps with a code so that only the mods know who did it.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 9:37 pm Post subject:
Mods tend to alter very little. Remove very little, and try in the main to interfere very little. Mods, although hugely fallible , also try to pm if alterations are made, and usually pm asking the poster to make the changes as opposed to making them. This is not always possiblethough.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 10:04 pm Post subject:

RichardW wrote:

Try it & see

what happens

tried & no I cant edit the edit by message

I meant for it to be changed by admin so that it didn't appear at all, so we can choose whether we want to declare if we have edited, just like moderators can. Then if it was changed you could simply change it back without 'this post has been edited' being added to the post.

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 10:15 pm Post subject:
I don't think it's any different for mods Rob Now Let's see. Nope - I can't get rid of it either. Last edited by jamanda on Thu Nov 05, 09 10:17 pm; edited 2 times in total

jamanda
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 10:16 pm Post subject:
I think there has to be a following post.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 10:17 pm Post subject:
It isn't. If I edit someone elses post, there is no 'edited by' comment, but if I edit my own, there always is. I can't choose whether or not this appears.

Rob R

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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 10:33 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

It isn't. If I edit someone elses post, there is no 'edited by' comment, but if I edit my own, there always is. I can't choose whether or not this appears.

That's right, I'd like to either know when posts have been edited or be able to edit them without the edited by bit tagged on.

gil
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 11:02 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

It isn't. If I edit someone elses post, there is no 'edited by' comment, but if I edit my own, there always is. I can't choose whether or not this appears.

That's interesting - I didn;t know that/hadn't noticed.

I don't mind if my own posts show that I've edited them. If I remember, I might even add 'ETA : whatever....' just to show what the extra bit of info is.

I've been into a couple of other people's posts recently to add them to the recipe database, where you have to provide a subject heading for the database to accept the recipe. If the post being recipied isn;t the first post in the thread, it prolly won't already have a subject heading, so I've given it the name of the recipe as an edit.
I'm quite glad that kind of editing doesn't show up as an edit, otherwise the original poster might wonder whether someone had changed their actual recipe.

bagpuss

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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 11:14 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

wellington womble wrote:

It isn't. If I edit someone elses post, there is no 'edited by' comment, but if I edit my own, there always is. I can't choose whether or not this appears.

That's right, I'd like to either know when posts have been edited or be able to edit them without the edited by bit tagged on.

I think if its possible to switch on edited notifications if a mod edits someone elses post thats a good idea but it might not be possible, I don't know how good the software is

I would rather it went that way than we lost edit notifications as for context sake it can be useful to know if something was edited

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