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Claudio González
Legend
April 24, 2009
Question

Edits ruining posts times and order?

  • April 24, 2009
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A few minutes ago, I edited a not very recent message of mine that hadn't received a direct answer. To my surprise, the original date and time of posting of my message were changed to those of edition, leading to the absurd that all subsequent messages became older than my edited post, as this remained in its place. What's more, until a new message was posted in that thread, my edited post became the "Last post" for the software, appearing as such in the list of topics. And I was taken to it, not to the last post, if I clicked on the "time of posting" shown in the list, or the Last Post button at the top of any page of the thread.


In my opinion, not a very clever or useful new feature.


And I was kicked out of the forums when I was finishing writing this message

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    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 24, 2009

    I have just remembered that Dorothy had already noticed this same behaviour:

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/1888944#1888944


    (and see also my post #190 in that same thread).

    adobe-admin
    Legend
    April 24, 2009

    This is not very different from Web Crossing. If you updated an old message in Web Crossing it, too, got moved to the top of the list and appeared as if it was a new message. But in Web Crossing you could only edit within 20 minutes. Now you can edit until someone replies. So it wasn't as rampant and was only very noticeable if an administrator went in and edited a old message.  John

    Claudio González
    Legend
    April 24, 2009

    As you say, in the old forums this may have been hardly noticeable because of the short time for editing messages. Which brings in an interesting question: is the latitude here good/desirable?


    I ask because I have seen several (or many? I don't know) people using the Reply button in the last posted message instead of that in the post they are answering. Which implies that there may be many later messages related with a given post, which remains nevertheless as "unanswered" and therefore editable. So the author of that message will be able to modify it many posts later in such a way that, willingly or unwillingly, at least some intermediate messages appear as hard to understad or simply foolish.


    Maybe the 20 minutes limit wasn't so bad after all.

    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    April 25, 2009

    PjonesCET wrote:

    When you do edits there is a little window just below with either you name or User name  you can add a comment to it and click a check mark and it will add that information to the editted version.

    do you have to state the obvious every single time?


    I actually like it except you can edit to correct mispellings or the like after someone has commented to your post directly.

    Of course you have to know they are there. I expect you meant 'can't'.

    si conehead
    Inspiring
    April 24, 2009

    See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424191?tstart=0

    The operative word is Pathetic.