Allowing Edit Feature For More Than One Hour

Overflow4487

It would be extremely useful if the "Edit" function here in the forums were active longer than just one hour. If we were able to have posts that were editable, we could create Tools for Players that could be updated as we get more information.

For example, I have been keeping track of what enemies I have encountered in different levels of the fortress depending on what type of runestone I was using and some of the rewards I received as a result. It would be useful if I could keep the first post (the starting post) as editable and could add to the overall information as I get more information to help other players...instead of just adding tons of response posts that people would have to try and sort through.

Outside of that issue, there has been a few times I read a post I previously posted and saw a typo I wanted to fix or in one case, information I wanted to remove from the post completely.

Craeft

I'm kinda on the fence with this. I would like to be able to edit my suggestion posts when I find new things:

https://community.harrypotterwizardsunite.com/en/discussion/598/things-i-feel-should-be-reworked

and

https://community.harrypotterwizardsunite.com/en/discussion/685/how-to-improve-the-forums

However, I've seen in many forums someone will go back and edit their posts to make respondents look poorly.

I understand the limitation. But it would be nice to allow an edit (without changing the original post) after an hour with an "EDIT" tag.

Psychomyrmex

The Local Groups and Events section DEFINITELY needs to be editable so that community threads can have their top post adjust over time. Otherwise the map is just going to get overcrowded if everyone has to make a new thread whenever their focus shifts.

For example I made the first and only thread for my city, and it's titled "Need Community for Community Day". But Community Day is over, and now I just want to find people to play with. Anyone looking at the map is going to see a post about Community Day and think, "Well that's past already." So do I add a new thread for my city every time what I'm looking for changes? That's going to get out of hand quickly. We should be able to edit our initial posts including the thread title so that we can just use one thread for particular group and have that first post be information for anyone looking for a group.

Craeft

@Psychomyrmex - I believe the recommendation to allow editing/deletion in that particular forum (due to the map pinning) has been discussed. I'm not sure where it's going to go, but in the meantime, you can tag @HPWULola if you need a post in there edited. :)

Hope this helps as a temp fix.

Kwbyk

I totally agree. I made a new discussion in the Local Groups and Events to try to find people in my area. Later I created a Facebook group for these people to join and communicate, but now I cannot include the info about this group in the discussion head, where it would be most effective.

Besides, I can’t even post the link as a response, since I’m not allowed to post links at all.

Acumen

24 hours seems like a reasonable compromise to me. I get that we want to prevent people from being able to deny accountability for posts spreading false or offensive information, but that's what good moderation is for. If the post length changes significantly, the edit will be held for review.

If the time limit must stay, 24 hours feels like a better length of time to allow for adding new information you'd prefer to include in the original post. The one hour limit is the Vanilla Forums default. Depending on the implementation and/or other plugins, there's usually a setting for this in the advanced edit section of administrator dashboard, or it can be changed by updating the following line in the config.php file:

$Configuration['Garden']['EditContentTimeout'] = '3600';

Just change 3600 to 86400.