hoplitejoe
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I didn't want it changed, I was just wondering about the reasoning.
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On the contrary! There is a reason it is this way.
It all began 24 years ago in a Toronto subway, not far off from Yonge Street. It was a rainy evening, although you couldn't tell it from the underground waiting area. The lights were bright and all-encompassing, while only two men in trench-coats waited for the next subway train to stop by. They had just missed the previous one, but it was no matter, since the run-times are fairly fast in Toronto.
In fact, it was them missing the train especially, that led to the beginning of the adventure to come. For upon realizing their plight, the two strangers glanced at each other. Naturally, a discussion would ensue in regards to missing the subway train, but not even the thinly-veiled enjoyment of their interactions would hide the story of what's to come...
Or really? I did not know that was not enabled. Very, very interesting.
Good Lefty: "Down, evil Lefty, get back down, we will have none of that"
Of course, the fact that a post has been edited, and by whom, is always available. 
Not if it's edited thisfast. Unless, of course, the admins can see even the really fast edits that nobody else sees.
Mind you, even I see the original, pre-edited comments, since I get instantaneous e-mail notifications of new posts in the threads I'm subscribed to. That is sometimes a very handy thing.
Indeed it is.
LucyDuke
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What's the timer on that has-been-edited text? A couple of minutes?
Ooh. I might turn that on and set up a junkybox for it.
Ooh. I might turn that on and set up a junkybox for it.
I've noticed like a minute or two OR if you make 3+ or 4+ edits. I've had posts where I make super-fast tons of mini-changes (instead of using "preview post" because I'm a dumbass), and if you do it too much, it'll set in.
I always view it as a failure if I fail to make the change in time before the time runs out or someone else posts.
I always view it as a failure if I fail to make the change in time before the time runs out or someone else posts.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Me too. And I do the same thing, lots of little tweaks I could've made ten seconds earlier. I've never noticed it after a number of edits, I always assume it's the timer.EDIT: Well, ten edits hasn't triggered it.
5 minutes, AFAIK.
I thought it kicked in when someone else looked at your pre-edit post.
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That is correct. It is set at 3 minutes.
Is there any reason it couldn't be reset to 5 minutes? When you consider that sometimes it's awfully hard to get from page to page due to long load times, the correction could have been made within 3 minutes, but due to circumstances that are not the poster's fault, this isn't possible.
NickyJ
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I thought it was only me who thought that.
I've always hated when my posts get that "last edited" text.Presumably because in those two minutes, there's a greater chance that someone has seen the post, and confusion would ensue due to the "retconning" edit (even if no-one has completed a post yet).
I thought it was only me who thought that.
Exactly - most people don't read the specific time when it was last edited. They will generally just see "last edited", and might subsequently think "oh what a post-editing sleaze, messing everyone up".
aimeeandbeatles
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If you post something that could be considered inflammatory, and a moderator has on instant-notification, and then you edit it out because you didn't mean to make it sound that way, and the mod comes in, will they still infract you?
