How long do we have to edit our posts?

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I know we used to have about a week, but I have a post within that time frame which I cannot edit. What is the new standard?

Good question. Seems to be more in the half-hour timeframe now.

If permanent, this is a major innovation, and a policy statement would be welcome.

I don't like the short edit time frame that much. There's now been a few times where the only way that I could change a post was by deleting and rewriting it (it seems strange that while you can no longer edit a post, you can still delete it if no one else has replied to the thread).

We definitely need more than a half hour!

Everyone can misspeak, and sometimes you don't realize it until another poster has pointed it out. In which case, in the interest of making things smoother for future readers, you want to correct yourself.

So, Alex, consider this my formal request to go back to some version of a multi-day editing window.

I don't think there should be any time limits for modifying our posts. Sometimes I want to fix something on a months old resurrected thread. Also we have many posters with comorbid dyslexia, dysgraphia etc.

I think the previous 3600 minute post edit limit should be restored, more so because of what ASPartOfMe mentioned.

I had to deal with a new 15 minute edit limit on Wikimapia last year, except unlike here the mods at Wikimapia were mean to me about it (I have always had a heavy habit of editing my posts for better wording and eliminating typos even after reviewing them a few times before posting).

The same goes for me. Sometimes I see that earlier posts were poorly worded and wish to improve it, even if it means changing only one word.

The edit time we had on old WP was short enough, I liked the way it was before the 3600 minutes better.
But now I overthink my posts so much more than I already did, and I used to spend hours or days on the long ones as it was. Ca half an hour is way too short.

I agree that we should have several days to edit... or delete. I'm disappointed that there has been no fine tuning of the new format. Why do it if you aren't going to make it just right?

I’ve been denied permission to edit a post only 23 minutes after sending it

Me, TOO!!

It seems to me that I read on the sticky "Complaints" thread, on this forum, that Alex said that he put the editing time back to "close to what it was", on the old WP. I'm guessing he changed it again, cuz it is most certainly NOT close to what it was, before the re-vamp!!

I've often wondered..... Maybe it, somehow, causes an overload / slowing / whatever on the site, or something, and so it's deemed a pain that edits are slowing-down everything, when it would be much better if that "energy" was being used to allow NEW posts, instead. I've also heard that it (editing) used to be allowed for about a week.

i wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. i notice my edits are taking a while to go through.

Completely agree with this. Surely there should be a way to poll users about the length (hopefully one option would be unlimited) and then request that specific time limit.



(and this is for all those that have seen Leslie Nielsen in the movie 'Airplane' )

I would like to go back and edit a post, but don't have the option. Does anyone have any ideas?

The problem with having no time limit at all though is that some people who decide to leave the forum also delete every post that they made on the forum over the years, messing up threads.

Despite the complaints from many of us about "necro posting" WP has decided to encourage the practice by adding the "Similar Topics" feature so they just have to deal with the consequences. In the other forums I post in there seems to be no time limit and people want to delete their account can do so when they want to. They don't seem to run into crippling issues. In fairness necro posting happens much more often here. I would guess this happens it is because of the specromite need to research every little aspect of a topic.