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Can you please limit the time users have to edit their posts.
There are several users on here who make it a habit of editing/effectively deleting their posts when they've had an answer.
Please consider limiting editing to something like 1 hour rather than the current "unlimited".
Alternatively, consider implementing vBulletin's inbuilt "post edit history", that way if some inconsiderate user decides to try and edit/delete their post then moderators can restore the previous content.
Can you please limit the time users have to edit their posts.
There are several users on here who make it a habit of editing/effectively deleting their posts when they've had an answer. Please consider limiting editing to something like 1 hour rather than the current "unlimited".
Alternatively, consider implementing vBulletin's inbuilt "post edit history", that way if some inconsiderate user decides to try and edit/delete their post then moderators can restore the previous content.
I'd definitely go with the "post edit history", but I do like the ability to edit later, if you forget something. However, one hour is a bit tight....I'd say 48 hours, but that's just my opinion.
I've gotten grief over the years for ALWAYS quoting (well, 99.8% of the time), the thread I'm responding to. That way, their original content is in MY reply, and they can't edit/delete it. But I'd also give someone a warning the first two times they did it, and ban after that.
If you remember something then a new post, that way anyone subscribed to the thread gets to see that there's been something new added. Post edits don't trigger the notifications.
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A couple comments. While post history has been enabled at LQ for over a decade, it's not something that is available to view for members. Additionally, the edit window isn't unlimited and hasn't been for a very long time. The behavior that's been noted in the OP is something that needs to be addressed on an individual basis when it happen (which is rare, and the single member we've been made aware of recently has been contacted and informed why they should not do this).
I've gotten grief over the years for ALWAYS quoting (well, 99.8% of the time), the thread I'm responding to. That way, their original content is in MY reply, and they can't edit/delete it.
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