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From now on going forward members have 60 minutes from the point of publishing a forum post to make their own edits to that post.
Blog posts are unaffected, they can be edited or deleted by users at any time and they maintain complete control and ownership of their content.
A time limit was always intended (only just worked out how to implement one),initially planned 30 minutes as per the community guidelines but can't see a problem with 60 minutes as long as it isn't abused. A lot of users have said that they like the fact that spelling mistakes etc can be edited from posts, one hour is probably a fair amount of time to allow people to edit, if writing something particular long they can go away and have a cuppa and a ciggy before re-reading, should give everybody plenty of time to do retrospective proofreading.
Allowing people to effectively remove old content whenever they wish would just be stupid, particularly as this forum ages and begins to rely on old threads in search engines for traffic (and revenue),people can completely ruin a thread by editing out all of their contributions. Plus we could get an idiot like that recent twitter account who decides to remove all of their wrong predictions and retain all of their right ones to prove themselves as an ITK etc.
If anybody posts anything which causes severe embarrassment in the future, or causes a privacy concern of any sort, or wakes up in the morning and is outright ashamed of what they have posted whilst drunk the night before.... they can request a discretionary edit or deletion from me (Admin),or an online mod (Splutcho or Morty) via PM.
Admin in particular has history for posting embarrassing stuff online whilst drunk and then finding it difficult to remove, so there is no intention of being awkward as long as requests are reasonable.
Example of unreasonable: "I want to delete my account, please remove all 567 of my posts"
Example of unreasonable: "I forgot to put an apostrophe in it's on this thread, can you put an apostrophe in for me?"
Example of unreasonable "I said I wanted Malky as manager last month, changed my mind - can you delete that out?"
Example of reasonable: "Really regret calling Joe Bloggs a *bleep*, could you please edit that out and replace it with this less offensive word?"
Example of reasonable: "I'm a bit worried that what I've said could get me in trouble, could you remove it?".
Example of reasonable: "If my wife sees that I'll be getting a divorce papers"
Example of reasonable: "I posted my full real name in this thread and it is showing in the search engines, please remove my surname".
Likes...
Apparently there was a 'like quota' of a maximum 10 'likes' per 24 hours per member, this has been increased to 25 likes per 24 hour period.
'Fan Since'....
Members can now enter the year that they start supporting the club in their profile information, which will show beneath their avatar on forum posts. E.g. You can see that I have been a fan since 1993 to the left.
Blog posts are unaffected, they can be edited or deleted by users at any time and they maintain complete control and ownership of their content.
A time limit was always intended (only just worked out how to implement one),initially planned 30 minutes as per the community guidelines but can't see a problem with 60 minutes as long as it isn't abused. A lot of users have said that they like the fact that spelling mistakes etc can be edited from posts, one hour is probably a fair amount of time to allow people to edit, if writing something particular long they can go away and have a cuppa and a ciggy before re-reading, should give everybody plenty of time to do retrospective proofreading.
Allowing people to effectively remove old content whenever they wish would just be stupid, particularly as this forum ages and begins to rely on old threads in search engines for traffic (and revenue),people can completely ruin a thread by editing out all of their contributions. Plus we could get an idiot like that recent twitter account who decides to remove all of their wrong predictions and retain all of their right ones to prove themselves as an ITK etc.
If anybody posts anything which causes severe embarrassment in the future, or causes a privacy concern of any sort, or wakes up in the morning and is outright ashamed of what they have posted whilst drunk the night before.... they can request a discretionary edit or deletion from me (Admin),or an online mod (Splutcho or Morty) via PM.
Admin in particular has history for posting embarrassing stuff online whilst drunk and then finding it difficult to remove, so there is no intention of being awkward as long as requests are reasonable.
Example of unreasonable: "I want to delete my account, please remove all 567 of my posts"
Example of unreasonable: "I forgot to put an apostrophe in it's on this thread, can you put an apostrophe in for me?"
Example of unreasonable "I said I wanted Malky as manager last month, changed my mind - can you delete that out?"
Example of reasonable: "Really regret calling Joe Bloggs a *bleep*, could you please edit that out and replace it with this less offensive word?"
Example of reasonable: "I'm a bit worried that what I've said could get me in trouble, could you remove it?".
Example of reasonable: "If my wife sees that I'll be getting a divorce papers"
Example of reasonable: "I posted my full real name in this thread and it is showing in the search engines, please remove my surname".
Likes...
Apparently there was a 'like quota' of a maximum 10 'likes' per 24 hours per member, this has been increased to 25 likes per 24 hour period.
'Fan Since'....
Members can now enter the year that they start supporting the club in their profile information, which will show beneath their avatar on forum posts. E.g. You can see that I have been a fan since 1993 to the left.
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