New SJ Owner

Edit: You're right, my mistake. Here's what the admin panel shows:



Note the "0 to disable". It's ambiguous whether that refers to disabling editing or the time limit on editing. I assumed that meant it completely disabled the ability to edit posts, but I was wrong--it disables the time limit.

Going forward this will be set to some value. I just checked, and Xenforo keeps a log of all post edits (https://xenforo.com/community/threads/post-edit-history-and-logging.46726/), so I don't mind setting it as high as 48 hours.

48 hours should be plenty of time for 99% of use cases, and if you need more than that, you can always contact a staff member.


Sounds like a bug in the forum software then.

When I took over the site, the admin panel was set at:
1) "Time period allowed for editing posts?" : "0 minutes"
2) "Users allowed to delete posts?" : "False"

I changed #1 to "5 minutes".

There's another bug that one of the moderators told me about--when a user receives some type of ban, sometimes the email notification has gone to a different user... all the more reason to switch forum software.

 

I don't know because I haven't seen those threads to know what the content of those posts look like.

If those threads are a fairly factual examination of things, then it's probably okay.

If it's a bunch of crude jokes, then I don't really want those here--this is a site about sports and journalism, not bathroom humor. Plenty of other jokes you can make here, and if you really want those particular jokes, there's lots of other sites on the internet that you can go to.

I likely won't have a chance to look at these in depth until next week--currently I'm focused on switching software plus migrating servers as well, so there's a lot of behind-the-scenes technical work that I'm doing.

 

I'm sure you're a solid editor, this has nothing to do with that.

Setting a time limit on editing minimizes:
1) Spammers sneaking in a link in their posts once the thread dies down.
2) Users mass-deleting their posts as a form of rage-quitting.

Both are very real problems with forums--that's why most other site owners that I know set their edit limits at 24 hours or less. While the post edit log records all changes, the mods and I don't normally review that log unless someone thinks there's an issue, so putting in a time limit just minimizes problems.

We'll try 48 hours, if the staff gets a lot of PM's asking for various posts to get edited, then I'll re-evaluate. It won't hurt anyone to give it a try.

 

Gallows humor and crude humor are not the same thing