Bergie,
A number of forums have the feature of after the poster has edited it, then a little do hickey at the end says the date, time , etc of the edit. Other forums had it and got rid of it - like the Atlas forum for one.
Now my question to you is this; who cares if something has been edited or not. At one point on the Atlas forum, it used to list every time a post was edited. So you could see at the bottom the number of times the post was edited… each with its own sentence. My question to Atlas at the time and now to you is this, who cares if a post is edited. If I have to edit something in that is really important (at least in my brain) to what I have already said, I just say I am editing this in.
Since both forums are snitzle or is it snitz, you can get rid of it if you want. The edit announcement just takes up unnecessary space and is completely unimportant.
I edited this in to give you an example… now do you really care that this post was edited?
I’ve found that it is useful to know if and when a post has been edited.
This particular message board treats edited posts as new posts, and put the thread with the edited post at the head of the forum and sets the purple folder to show a new post has been made. Being able to identify the edited post can save some frustration.
On a few message boards I am familiar with, when disputes arose, people would edit their posts and then deny they had made thus and such a comment. Having a public record of an edit discourages such behavior.
Finally, if the administrators have to edit a member’s post for one reason or another, it is good to have a public announcement of the fact, with perhaps some comments by the administrator who made the edits.
The BBS software trains.com is using is intelligent enough to update the edit tags after repeated edits. (As opposed to older versions of say, UBB software that add a new edit line every time a post is edited. But even there, one learns to delete the old edit tags before posting changes.)
One line in small type at the end of a post isn’t going to overload the server. It also isn’t going to kill anybody, either.
Good points. I have used the edit function ALOT. I dont mind the small
announcements. If you really need to complain about something, ask
for a spell check. I’ve seen more misspelled words on this forum than
in a kindergarten class. Dave
Like ALOT. It’s two words, not one. Alot isn’t even in the dictonary and was an automatic F if it was ever used in a paper at the university I attended. We didn’t use it a lot . “Glass houses and all.” FRED
Here’s a rock for yur glass house! You have irritated me once again with your petty corrections. You must be what has been termed a “rivet counter”. Most of your replies or alot of them anyways, are corrections to other posters. I understand that you are a business owner and I feel for your clientel if you correct them as much as you do us here on the forum.
Alot or a lot… why does it matter? We all know what is meant.
BTW you sign your posts FRED does this stand for Flashing Rear End Device – Slang term for end of train telemetry device.
Fred,
I will make sure to write "I will not use the word ‘alot’ " 100 times on the blackboard if you will make sure to never post in response to me ever again. Deal? I have yet to see a positive response from you on any subject. Are sarcasms and corrections the way you deal with everything in life? I have had to sharp shoot with you numerous times, only to get fed up and say screw it. As for " a lot " everyone knows that. A simple miss of the spacebar does not make a misspelled word. As for my suggestion for a spell check, it would eliminate A LOT of edited posts. Dave
Let’s all just take a chill pill!!! Better yet, lets take a lot of them (or alot if you prefer). For a second there this was starting to look like one of OLD DAD’s postings on the Trains forum (no offense, OLD DAD). Remember, this is a forum, not a colluseum (if you didn’t get it, post back and I will explain it)! So let’s all just forget about one miss of the space bar! I admit, I didn’t even know myself that alot was incorrect unitl about two months ago, and I’m at an age when I really should know that. Now as for the spell check suggestion, I would support that only if the spell check recognized catenary, intermodal, and most importantly, railfan[:)].
Back to the orginal topic, I feel that we should keep the edit line mostly for the reasons cited by AltonFan.
Most Spellchecking software for forums is easily adaptable and key words specific to those forums can be inserted. Also most have a way to filter words such that certain therms can be changed to more pleasing forms.
So you could have say…“UP bashing” turn into “Union Pacific Meets Club” or other querky things.
And no offense to the spell checkers here, but Alot is a valid word. It is considered a slang term, and many prominant writers use it in their works. I highly anticipate that within the next 5-10 years it will be listed in Websters, and i believe it is in more prominate ones already.
It has always been considered extremely bad manners to point out incorrect grammar or spelling on any international forum. Firstly there is no way of knowing whether English is the native tongue of the author and secondly Ameriglish is quite prevalent and must be allowed for.
Canglish et Jouale, les langues officiel du Canada.
Does anybody REALLY care if these posts were edited ???
I go back and add comments ALL THE TIME. It does not matter.
[}:)]
See , Now I went back and added more , just to be a pain.
[:p]
Lightbender,
A few of us from different forums try and meet each other at different events, for example I met Dave Koch from two different forums in Billingham Washington when they had the last public showing of their layout before tear down. I also met Dispatcher42 last summer at a meet. Dispatcher42 is one of the active members of the N scale modular layout you see at lots of shows.
So if you are going to a show and want to meet other forum members, let me know. I think the next show is in March. Also my son works at Central HObbies on Saturday’s, and more during the Xmas season. His name is Dane.
Sounds good to me. I was going to drop you a line before the last Cameron show but as I hadn’t organised a guaranteed ride I wasn’t certain I’d make it. I will definitely be at the March show and was thinking of the Mount Pleasant show in February, after all that’s where I live.
I have a love/hate relationship with Central Hobbies. Love going there, great people, terrific selection, great prices. Hate the way that place sucks all my money right out of the wallet and has been known to drain the bank account dry on occasion…haha.
[}:)]Was there a full moon in the sky when this subject reared its head? For the love of God, enough already. Some of you are showing yourselves to be little more than children eager to throw tandrums over the slightest hiccup. We should all be ABOVE this level of behavior, gentlemen. That said, back to your trains–all of you!
Superchief,
I was going to let sleeping dogs lie, with your post; but then I thought better of it. I checked out when you joined this forum and it was about a month ago. The history of this forum is that it is a replacement of an MR forum that was slow, kluttzy, hard to follow, impossible to do a search, and generally poor performance. It was a number of us who whined and moaned and complained that I’m sure help bring it to the attention to those powers that be who eventually decided to correct it.
The biggest problem with the current forum is that you can’t post pics to it. For me, this really isn’t a big deal, as I am the most active on the Atlas forum where thousands and thousands of pics have been posted, and the world didn’t come to an end.
But when this forum came into being, because I whined and moaned so much, I made a personal commitment to stay here for at least one year to help it become a good forum and a great place to come. What you see today is light years ahead of what used to be.
The only way to get improvements is to whine and moan about them. Oh yes, my favourite whining and moaning isn’t about pictures but about the pop ups.
A good forum, is quick, easy to navigate, fairly simple in design, allowing pictures, with chat (I haven’t whined and moaned about that yet), without the edit notices that just take up space and make the telephone internet people even have to wait longer for items to load. Of course, one edit announcement really isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference, but if you have many many edit announcements wasting space, downloads will be slower. I’m on cable and really don’t care about download speeds any more.
This forum has grown and is much better than it used to be, but it isn’t a mature forum yet.
What he means is that he has senority. When MR starts furlowing the members because of budget cutbacks…you will be furlowed before him…and apparently myself too, since he has me by a month…but I’ve got more posts…hmmmmm