How do I edit a reply to a post?

Post by **dcarlson12** » 25 Mar 2011, 18:45

Read one of my replies to a post. Found a few typos.
How do I edit a reply to a post?

Post by **jimmy57** » 25 Mar 2011, 19:50

go to the reply and look at the top of the test window. 3rd item left of the MVS Contributor logo in your case.

Post by **dcarlson12** » 26 Mar 2011, 11:50

I'm sorry but I must be blind or something. I only see two items to the left of MVS Contributor i.e. a little window with a open quotation mark and word 'QUOTE' inside the window and to the left of that an 'up side down' triangle with an '!' mark inside it. I don't see any 'Edit' button. Am I looking in the correct area or ???
Thks for your patience...

Post by **jblackburn** » 26 Mar 2011, 12:01

You have to be logged into the site first; then it should show up here.

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Post by **dcarlson12** » 26 Mar 2011, 12:34

Thanks. I thought I was logged in but I logged out and logged in again and now all is well.

Edit: Spoke too soon. I went to look at the reply which I wanted to Edit (https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums ... 29#p177302) and the Edit button does not appear for that reply.
Whatever, not to worry just curious why this is happening.

Post by **billofdurham** » 26 Mar 2011, 13:23

You managed to edit this one so it can be done. The Edit button came up on the other post when I tried it. Give it another shot. Matthew doesn't charge extra for more that one try.

Bill.

Post by **dcarlson12** » 26 Mar 2011, 15:02

Tried lots of different things. Can edit this one but not the other about a New Wheel. Tried clearing my cache. Tried a reboot. Tried in Internet Explorer as well as Firefox. One of the mysteries of the Universe I guess

Post by **matthew1** » 26 Mar 2011, 15:28

dcarlson12 wrote:Tried lots of different things. Can edit this one but not the other about a New Wheel. Tried clearing my cache. Tried a reboot. Tried in Internet Explorer as well as Firefox. One of the mysteries of the Universe I guess

Sorry, I wish I'd gotten to this topic earlier. I could have saved you lots of toil.

Reason: Edits are limited to the first four hours of a post's life. Deletion the first two hours.

After those respective time windows, the buttons disappear. Moderators' buttons don't have this window, naturally.

I used to have those values up to several days or even a week, I can't remember now, but then there was an instance of a user making a good post about upgrading his S60, and then me putting it into the Repair Database. So far so good, but can you see ahead?

After a couple days -- for whatever reason, I have no guesses even -- the user edited his post to essentially nothing. A single character is the minimum, and I think he left a dot -- ".".

So let me bump that edit window back up a little... I'll make it two days. I'll keep the deletion window unchanged. Collective punishment is a bad policy.

Moving forward, if you need a post edited outside the new two day window, just let me or one of the moderators know and we'll edit to taste.