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Edit A Post is a Normal Thing In Every Other Forum

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
January 1, 2021
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What bright spark decided to ban users from editing posts ?

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Francisco Borghini

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Wonder what's the expression to use... English is not my mother language.. Maybe :"Couldn't agree with you more"

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Hi@MusoCity

I see you have only 56 posts so far. Only Adobe staff and forum moderators can edit posts. Individual forum users earn the privilege to edit their own posts after they have been active participants for a while and earned enough merit badges. This is nothing unusual.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

MusoCityAuthor

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"earned enough merit badges" I remember them in kindergarten little golder starts we used to get.

I have been in hospitals half dead for five years, close to death, left my body, been into other dimensions and all I did through all that was help other people and not think about my self, and you tell me I have not earned enough merit badges to edit my own post !

Are you guys for real ? Grow UP !

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Hey, she's a volunteer here, another user, and a good helper for tons of people. All she did was note reality. Neither she nor I nor any other of the ACPs on here had a say in anything about this.

In fact, the employees managing these user-to-user forums didn't have much of a say either I don't think. This was Upper Management wisdom.

And as to 'earning' things like the ability to edit a post, yea, I've seen that on some other forums. This ain't the only one. I don't agree with it but hey, like you, I can't change it either.

The ACPs do a ton of help across the Adobe user forums. And yea, when this new software replaced the wretched one they had before, most of us thought they went from bad to ... oh freaking my. And gave pretty point-blank "feedback" to staffers about our views.

Most of the worst of the forum's silly mess have been fixed, thankfully. But this, like a few other things, still exists. Sadly

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

John Waller

Community Expert

>>>What bright spark decided to ban users from editing posts ?

I don't work for Adobe but these forums are constantly subjected to attacks by spammers and abusers. Adobe rents the forum software from a 3rd party and cannot change the underlying code driving the forums.

So, as a workaround late last year, Adobe decided to remove the editing ability for newcomers until they reach a certain "rank" on the forums i.e. they post several times over a period of time and are therefore unlikely to be "troublemakers". It has worked quite well so far in terms of practically eliminating spam and abuse.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community/edit-forum-post-still-not-fixed/td-p/11484819

That said, @MusoCity, since you have been on these forums for a while, you may have been inadvertently caught up in the changed permissions set up by Adobe last year. Suggest you PM @Sil.C (she's an Adobe employee on the team which runs the forums) to see how you can restore your edit privileges.

Sil.C

Community Manager

Hi @John Waller , we added the permissions retroactively to all users that reached the required rank.
@MusoCity despite being a user for a number of years, your activity hasn't reached the threshold for the ranking required to be able to edit posts. It's a combination of tenure, likes, posts, and replies. Can't share the exact number, though. Keep participating and you'll soon be able to!

MusoCityAuthor

Known Participant

"ranking required to be able to edit posts" LOL get out into the real world, everywhere you go you can edit posts.

Yes I'm here to post SPAM then edit my post and add more SPAM. Grow up guys ! or do you need to have a corporrate boardroom meeting with all the executives to change this ? honestly, ask yourself.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

If you click on More, what options do you get? Assuming, that is, that you get a More option after Follow...

The editing rules are basically that you can edit your post until somebody else replies to it - after that, editing is not available. Yes there have been a lot of comments on the appropriate part of the Support Community about this, but I don't think it's going to change.