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Claudio González
Claudio González
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October 10, 2009
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Has this always been like this?

  • October 10, 2009
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I have just noticed that asking to be taken to the last message of a thread takes one to the last edited post, not to the last posted message. Also, the edited message shows its original time in the list, but the date and time of the last edit when open.


Has it always been like this, or has a recent change been made? I ask because I don't recall having observed this before (which doesn't really mean much). And, regardless of whether this is a recent change or it has always been like this, I find it very confusing. Perhaps marking a message as edited should be automatic, and not voluntary as it is today?

I am thinking, for example, of the automatic addition at the end of a message of a note saying "Last edited by (name of the author or host/moderator) on (date and time)". The reason for the edit would be added only if voluntarily added by the person who did it. As I will do voluntarily at the end of this message immediately after posting it.


I think that if, at the same time, editing a message doesn't make it automatically become the last one, everything would be quite a lot more clear and logical.

Message was edited by: Claudio González on October 10 2009, 8:18 am. Reason: offering an example of my proposition.

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    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    October 11, 2009

    A further case with an unexpected variant. Both ways of asking to be taken to the last post of this thread

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2306883?tstart=0#2306883

    take me to the first one. ???

    J
    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    October 11, 2009

    Claudio González wrote:

    I have just noticed that asking to be taken to the last message of a thread takes one to the last edited post, not to the last posted message. Also, the edited message shows its original time in the list, but the date and time of the last edit when open.


    Has it always been like this

    Yes

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    October 11, 2009

    jochemd wrote:

    Claudio González wrote:

    I have just noticed that asking to be taken to the last message of a thread takes one to the last edited post, not to the last posted message. Also, the edited message shows its original time in the list, but the date and time of the last edit when open.


    Has it always been like this

    Yes

    Thank you for answering. Although I could have almost sworn that asking to be taken to the last posted message used to take me tho the last posted, and not the last edited one, you are someone who should know and I'll have to take your word for it. Which opens a new question for you or other person in the know: as this is obviously not desirable, is it something that we might expect to be corrected soon?


    And you didn't say anything about my proposition of adding automatically the line "Last edited by: XXX on..." at the end of each edited message. Is it not even worth of considering/commenting? I ask because this is done in other forums I frequent, and I think it's both fair and useful.

    J
    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    October 11, 2009

    Claudio González wrote on 10/11/2009 1:01 PM:

    Although I could have almost sworn that asking to be taken to the last posted message used to take me tho the last posted, and not the last edited one, you are someone who should know and I'll have to take your word for it.

    It is actually more complicated. Sometimes you are taken to the last

    posted and sometimes to the last edited. But the logic to determine to

    which one you will be taken has not changed.

    Which opens a new question for you or other person in the know: as this is obviously not desirable, is it something that we might expect to be corrected soon?

    I wouldn't count on it.

    And you didn't say anything about my proposition of adding automatically the line "Last edited by: XXX on..." at the end of each edited message. Is it not even worth of considering/commenting?

    I only comment on things I care about.

    A
    Anonymous
    October 10, 2009

    Good morning Claudio!


    I just had the same thing happen to me in the "Just in Case" thread.  I read it yesterday and when I went back in today it didn't take me to the end, but to the post you had written in response to Rick (Captiv8r).  I don't know if you made an edit in that post or not, but I had read it and the posts down to John Joslin's reply all yesterday.


    hopper

    ps ... note the verdana ... 

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    October 10, 2009

    Good morning, Hopper.

    Yes, I did edit that message earlier today, and I added this at the bottom:

    Message was edited by: Claudio González on October 10 at 7:38 am (local).. Reason: small grammatical changes.

    And thank you for using Verdana, although in these forums 10 points -which I use- is enough.

    A
    Anonymous
    October 10, 2009

    Okay, 10pt it is! 


    I hadn't noticed the "edited ..." part, but then I didn't look very hard for it, since I was surprised to be up so high in the thread when I had already read it!


    I guess the edit makes it the "last" post in the thread timeline??


    The forum comments thread lists also states that you made a reply "1 day ago", when in fact, it was done today, about 3 hours ago.  Weird stuff happening ...

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