3-hour edit limit

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Isn't that a little short?

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I think you can still edit after that, but you will get a [edited on ... by ... ] at the bottom after the 3 hours are up

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Originally posted by phisherman
I think you can still edit after that, but you will get a [edited on ... by ... ] at the bottom after the 3 hours are up

15 minutes is the limit before the [edited] footer is displayed (or so I was told). After 3 hours you have to contact an administrator to edit your posts.

Try it out on an old post of yours. :)

[Extremecriticiser]

Wrong. You get that [edited .... by ....] even if you do it in three hours.

And anyway, use your logic. What is the point of showing if this message has been edited if in three hours it doesn't show? Why would any forum maker do that?

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Your post didn't make any sense. What I said was that if you edit your post in less than 15 minutes from the original posting time, the [edited] footer will not be displayed. Any time after that the footer will show up. But if you try to edit your post more than 3 hours after the original posting time, you will not be able to edit it (an error message will show up instead of the 'edit post' form).

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Give it back :mad::mad::mad:

[ElChevelle]

A person gets pissed off and posts something really hateful and was done in the heat of the moment. They now get the chance to edit soon afterwards, hopefully within their cooling down period. If not, the rest of the Winamp World gets to view it and judge the actions of this person without allowing for retraction after the fact.

Recently, a now banned individual went whacko in here, trashed some folks, and made a mockery of the forums over the span of a weekend. When Monday finally rolled around (the return of Admin central), that particular user had gone back and changed his idiocy to something a bit more coherent. All negatives were replaced with [edited by....]

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