I'm a chronic editor. Usually just for spelling and grammar. Sometimes because a thought isn't complete or because it doesn't convey the thought as I wanted to, and I think "No. That doesn't sound quite right. It's not what I wanted to get across or how I wanted to get it across" I'll pay mor attention now that I know people are bothered by it.

It bothers me.

Sometimes I will do it for a glaring error right after I posted.

Sometimes I will do it when people are misreading a post due to my poor logic.  I will in those cases put a clear "edit:  added xyz to clarify" or, "edit;  i misled people in the post, and so let me clarify......"...or such type of  spelled out edits.

 Hi chemgal,

I haven't noticed that to be the case.  Although I do not tend to go back to older posts to edit them.  If I have made an error, such as attibuting a quote to the wrong member, I will try to go back and fix that.  When I can no longer access a post to edit it I will ask Admin for help.

Maybe somebody should quote this post and I'll see if the edit option is still available.

To be honest, while there is some editting going on and fixing of typos that is minor.

And yes, there is a poster who makes huge sweeping edits.  I don't believe that this is done in an attempt to altar or manipulate discussion.  I believe it is done in the heat of the moment.

Grace and peace to you.

John

Thanks Kimmio, I would appreciate it if you edited a little less, but as I said, it's my issue.  If you feel the need to continue editing, go ahead.  It's a good lesson in patience for me :)

Pinga, I agree.  If I'm making changes to content in a post that's been up for a whlie I try to remember to make it clear that it was edited.

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OK, RevJohn, edit away....

I mostly use it just after posting something, when I note a misspelled worfd or such.  I need a preefrooder, I guess.  But I tend to leave alone something that's been there awhile, even if I later notice an oops or two.

If any of you want to prevent people from editing their posts, all you have to do is click reply and that will get rid of the edit link forevermore :3

quote wont do it

welcome to agape :3

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Go ahead and try to edit it now!  If you can, maybe people are referring to the fact that the quote in my post remains the same?

chemgal, i just replied to your post.

ina, i just quoted your post.  can you edit it?

Reply works!  The edit button no longer shows up.  I use it sometimes in a busy thread when responding to something that has a few posts after it.  Maybe I'll use it more from now on :)

well i'll be darned, i can't anymore.  it looks like the admins have changed the WC coding :3

thanks for the experiment, Pinga

Hi to chemgal and redbaron338

I can no longer edit my first post.

Inanna Whimsey, that makes good sense.

Grace and peace to all of you.

John

lets see if it works when i quote 'myself'...SELF-ITERATIVE

yuppers, it works :3

mua ha ha, this teach people now to use wordprocessors & do their editing there first...

Do you have the ability to edit this one?

lol, we all need a life!

Thanks everyone, this was actually fun!

I was very skeptical of the reply one, as I usually never notice the edit button disappearing on my posts and using the reply feature never seemed to do much other than putting up text above while writing a post.  I should trust you guys a little more :)

So, in summary, to block someone from being able to edit their post, just use the reply or quote functionality when responding.

Hi chemgal,

Nope.

Grace and peace to you.

John

Exactly.

I do this all the time.  Stephen recently pulled a fast one and completely re-wrote a post I replied to without hitting "Reply", but I've learned to almost always lock the post I'm replying to.

Kimmio doesn't like it, but I mostly "Reply" to her out of habit, not specifically to lock her out.  She mostly just re-words or adds little bits.  She isn't an author - she's an editor.

i dont read peoples post and edit accordingly to maniupulate.

i do edit my posts for many reasons.

sometimes typos.

sometimes repeatative things.

sometimes i add something i feel is more appropraite.

sometimes i may even post scripture and decide to replace some with another

many reasons.

i dont read responses and go back and edit to the purpose of manipulating a convo for appearances of some kind.

have a nice day.

I'll sometimes post and then edit right away because I have more to say to correct typos. Rarely go back and edit an older post and then only if there's an egregious error in it. If I want to add to what I said, I'd quote myself and go from there.

Mendalla

On rare occasions.

Yeah, well, I admitted as much. It's a bit OCD of me. :)

Gotcha chansen...;) Actually, I've only ever hit the reply button by accident until now.

I never edit my posts, but if I put as much thought into my real-life conversations as my wondercafe conversations...I would never have to gasp at myself and pull another stack of toes out of my mouth.  And seriously, I want one of these smiley faces with sunglasses to flash at the end of my conversations in real life. 

ab penny,

I am looking at you and the dog and it seems you have a smiley donning sunglasses already

I had to wear dark glasses for a month because of some wild thyroid thing going on...I guess I could just keep wearing them.  I guess I could take a new picture, but I'm pretty lazy

ab penny : 

StephenBooth, sorry I did come to that conclusion unfairly.  I appreciate your clarification as well as revjohn's insight.  I do tend to skim many of your posts, see mass amounts of edited posts and have seen others become frustrated with your editing so that's what I assumed.

There have been other times where I have thought posters did it to be manipulative.  Maybe they were, maybe they weren't.  Luckily, it's a small minority of all the posts!

ooo la la!  i always knew you had something wild aboot you :3

Ha ha ha ha ha!

I WON'T edit it...but my last post  probably doesn't make sense because I was replying to chansen's previous post referring  to me, thinking that the reply function would pick up his post but it didn't. In the meantime, a few others posted ahead of me.

To clarify, my  last post was an admittance that I am an editor not an author, and I seem to have a bit of an OCD editting problem.  It's the perfectionist in me.

don't write that TOO loud or a psychiatrist might be pouncing you and forcing you into addiction's counselling *waggles eyebrows*

better to have staff

What's the treatment for addiction to editting posts?

Can't afford to hire an editting staff at the moment. Ther's no money in WC posting. ;)

I have no problems with people editing to correct spelling and/or grammatical errors - I've certainly done that myself. 

My only problem comes when something is changed significantly (meaning more than simple spelling or grammatical changes) after people have already replied to the post. 

I edit to correct errors, and do so pretty much immediately once I post it and read it and find them.

Ooohh.....love this.......I love that hitting reply stops the editting. I am not so concerned about Kimmio's edits, because I know she is polishing. Others on the otherhand.......

I only edit pretty much immediately after I have posted. I will read the post and see a dumb error, or something that doesn't make sense and fix it. Perhaps that is my OCD coming out. It doesn't show up often, except in matters of writing.

A weekend with her

Kimmio's editing wouldn't drive me crazy except for the 'new' showing up - that must be my OCD thing :)  Also, this wasn't passive-aggressive towards anyone.  While there may be recent offenders, there are other posters who do the same thing.  I can think of at least 2 people for each category.

oooh, now i know how to bug chemgal! post, edit, post, edit, post, edit. 

just teasing.

good thread in discussing our own personal quirks

But now I know I can just hit reply :)

Hey Inanna: Me and Mavis go way back but we have a different approach. She insists that I place my fingers a certain way on the keyboard and it doesn't work for me...my fingers don't want to obey.

Hi Kimmio,

Mavis and I go way back, too. Version 5 of MBTT, I think it was.

The "new" showing up has driven me crazy a few times... when I have been especially interested in a conversation and have been following it closely.

I don't think this is obsessive at all :) 

I do a few edits to my posts ... usually right away. I like the Spell check function and always use it when my posts are more than a line or two.

Ah, typing courses... I remember taking a 9 week course in grade 7 (required of all students).  The first day of the course  we learned to do something like this:

ffff jjjj ffff jjjj fjfjfjfj

I think that was the first, and last, thing I actually did right in that course.  I have long since discovered that the two finger system I use works much better for me.

Hi Redbaron,

Oh yes, the typing course in grade 7. We had it for the whole year. I came out of it able to place my fingers correctly on the keys but I always needed to look at them. My high school and university papers were typed this way on an old manual typewriter.

When I picked up Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (many years later), I was happy to discover that my fingers remembered the home row. Mavis helped me to learn the keyboard better and to pick up my speed.

I no longer need to look at the keyboard unless I want the keys in the center of the top row.  By the time Mavis wanted to teach me the top row, I was happy with my progress and I packed her away.

My accuracy could use some improvement, however. Thank goodness for Spell Check. 

hah, my age is showing.

typing class didn't occur until highschool and it wasa typewriter!

I am a very fast typer, 

That's the era I'm from, Pinga.  I have vivid pictures in my memory of typing class.  Probably because the boy who sat at the typewriter beside me was one I had a crush on for a few years :)