Posted by Dr. Bob on November 23, 2009, at 11:06:02
In reply to Re: editing posts after submission, posted by Nadezda on November 23, 2009, at 10:22:06
> And to propose it for the reason you are proposing it, I find totally shocking. So that people can be uncivil and then fix it?
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> I hope that others would help me out by preserving, one way or another, any words spoken against me in this manner.
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> Dinah> So a time-limited chance to edit posts seems quite legitimate. Someone suggested an hour, but maybe a half hour would be better calibrated, since there's less opportunity for others to read the post, and then to find it's vanished. That does do odd things to one's sense of reality and is disruptive. So I'd prefer a limit of 20-30 minutes at most.
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> NadezdaRight, the idea is more fixing and less preserving.
I agree that a time limit makes sense, but I was thinking a longer one. Sometimes it helps to sleep on things, so maybe 24 hours?
The original post wouldn't just vanish. If someone read a post, came back later, and it was revised, how do you think that might that affect their sense of reality?
Bob
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