New SJ Owner

[BDC99]

I don't think it's unreasonable to be able to edit posts in the short term, but if you're just editing for a typo or something, who cares? If you have an issue like DeskMonkey's that's about the only reason I can see for allowing deleting posts, and exceptions should be made. But I've never even considered deleting a post. I guess I'm not that controversial.

Some of us are editors. We care.

I'm an editor too, and not too bad if you ask me. But it's just a message board, for crying out loud.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Jeff, we have this thing here we like to call "silly season" ...

 

[Jeff]

You guys may not believe me, since I'm the one enforcing the edit time limit, but I do identify with getting annoyed about typos, and frequently edit my posts to fix them. I'm actually more persnickety about tweaking the phrasing of my writing so it reads a little better, pauses at just the right places, etc.

So I do empathize with you guys, and I agree that 48 hours isn't a perfect solution--there will be times you'll get frustrated you can't fix a typo. But the longer the edit period, the greater the percentage of edits being for the wrong reasons (spammer inserting links, ragequitter, etc) rather than the right reasons.

So I arbitrarily picked 48 hours, we'll try it and see how it goes.

@Evil... Thy Name is Orville Richenbacher! - Not sure if you saw, since you quoted the 5 minute post, but I made a decision later in the thread to make it 48 hours rather than 5 minutes.

 

[BDC99]

Jeff, did you edit the previous post just to troll us?

 

[Boom_70]

I really lament the inability to delete old posts. I went through a deep depression about a year ago and some of the stuff I posted, I would really like to go away.

I abandoned an account I had for several years due to the inability to delete because I had used my real name and while I didn't really cross any lines, I still had some posts that were, how should I say it, not exactly vanilla. Knowing it's still there makes me cringe (one post being a very valid complaint virtually every response agreed with, yet not flattering) because hiring managers can search for that.

This is the kind of stuff I'd be open to making exceptions for and temporarily give you the ability to delete your posts so you can do a one-time cleanup. I'm not going to let folks do this regularly, but there are certainly times it's warranted.

I'd need more info plus I'd be double-checking it with the moderators as they know user history a lot better than me.

PM me with more details.

That sounds more than fair but if I were you I would also ask for a copy of his Psyc Doctor's report as
full verification of his breakdown. Some of these guys can be be real sand baggers. If you have
the report then you are more than covered if it blows up on you.

 

[Meatie Pie]

It would be interesting to find out what Jeff paid for the place.

 

[BDC99]

It would also be interesting to find out when Boom became such a clashy troll.

 

[Jeff]

Jeff, did you edit the previous post just to troll us?

Wondered if anyone would notice.


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Note: I removed a post where a user requested that I delete his account. All such requests need to be handled through PM, not in a public thread, so I have removed the post and will followup privately.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

You guys may not believe me, since I'm the one enforcing the edit time limit, but I do identify with getting annoyed about typos, and frequently edit my posts to fix them. I'm actually more persnickety about tweaking the phrasing of my writing so it reads a little better, pauses at just the right places, etc.

So I do empathize with you guys, and I agree that 48 hours isn't a perfect solution--there will be times you'll get frustrated you can't fix a typo. But the longer the edit period, the greater the percentage of edits being for the wrong reasons (spammer inserting links, ragequitter, etc) rather than the right reasons.

So I arbitrarily picked 48 hours, we'll try it and see how it goes.

@Evil... Thy Name is Orville Richenbacher! - Not sure if you saw, since you quoted the 5 minute post, but I made a decision later in the thread to make it 48 hours rather than 5 minutes.

Works for me.
But when I posted last night the inability to edit the post was instantaneous. As soon as it was up, I couldn't change it.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

That's still true.

 

[Songbird]

Yeah, but we can Like posts now. Definitely needs to be a weekly contest. oop would probably win.

 

[JC]

This is terrible.