I don't like it when people edit posts

[guaca]

Being myself, I can't use the "H" word but I just don't like it when people go back and edit their posts. By the time I get to read them all the comments are edited out or changed and I miss the whole darn thing.

Geez, I hate when that happens

 

[Bonochick]

I pretty much only edit mine when I have spelling errors.

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[ghetofabu]

I have not been in the forum long but I noticed it and don't like it much either.

 

[guaca]

Originally posted by Bonochick:
I pretty much only edit mine when I have spelling errors.

Spelling mistakes I can handle, but when there's a thread that the remarks or comments are obviously changed and don't reflect the actual original comment thread then you can't follow it at all. So I'll just say Blargh

 

[Bonochick]

Originally posted by WhackaMole:
Spelling mistakes I can handle, but when there's a thread that the remarks or comments are obviously changed and don't reflect the actual original comment thread then you can't follow it at all. So I'll just say Blargh

I agree with you.

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[ghetofabu]

Ditto.

 

[joyfulgirl]

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[Sicy]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh yes.......... editing..

 

[guaca]

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EDIT THIS!

are you belittling my confession

 

[~LadyLemon~]

Originally posted by Bonochick:
I pretty much only edit mine when I have spelling errors.

Me too, I'm a perfectionist.

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[joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by WhackaMole:
EDIT THIS!

are you belittling my confession

No, just confessing my love for the editing feature.

I love the right to edit. I only post at work so I'm usually in a hurry and as a result I say dumb things in the moment and then 10 minutes later realize what I said and rush back in to fix it. I do try not to alter significantly what I've said so it doesn't interfere with the flow of a debate, though.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by Bono's American Wife:
I don't believe in editing to take back something you typed in haste and now regret. I have stopped myself from hitting edit many times and decided to face the music after a dumb or poorly thought-out post. I would rather apologize or clarify in another post rather than look like I was trying to change what I said.

Well, we disagree! I am a big believer that changing one's mind or revising the way something was said, is a virtue. I don't ever want to be stuck in a moment. But right now over in another forum there is something that I regret having said but it became part of a big debate and I will not go back and edit it because that wouldn't be fair. But I see nothing wrong with changing a word or two to soften something that was said in haste and perhaps was too harsh, or something like that. If the post in question has already been quoted and discussed, then I won't edit it--I'll just address it.


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[elevatedmole]

I like to edit. I usually never change my entire post, but sometimes I do regret saying something and change it -- but I NEVER change it when someone has already replied to it. However, I do usually edit for typos.

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[U2girl]

Oh well...

i believe editing is the right and choice of whoever uses it, and the user of editing should be trusted to edit posts by his/her best judgement and he/she should have the "freedom" to shape their thoughts any way they want.

 

[z edge]

Originally posted by WhackaMole:
EDIT THIS!

are you belittling my confession

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[The_Sweetest_Thing]

I always edit for spelling and grammar. I'm obsessed.


But I don't think people should edit what they wrote---unless it's REALLY bad. You wrote what you did in the heat of the moment. If this was in person, you couldn't take it back...

 

[U2ME3]

Originally posted by U2girl:
Oh well...

i believe editing is the right and choice of whoever uses it, and the user of editing should be trusted to edit posts by his/her best judgement and he/she should have the "freedom" to shape their thoughts any way they want.

you tell 'em!



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[BAW]

I don't believe in editing to take back something you typed in haste and now regret. I have stopped myself from hitting edit many times and decided to face the music after a dumb or poorly thought-out post. I would rather apologize or clarify in another post rather than look like I was trying to change what I said.

BUT, being a typical Virgo perfectionist, I can't stop myself from fixing a typo no matter how hard I try to ignore it

 

[ABEL]

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J/K!!!

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[guaca]

Originally posted by ABEL:
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you people are nasty!

in a friendly way if there is such a thing that is

 

[joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by The_Sweetest_Thing:
I always edit for spelling and grammar. I'm obsessed.


But I don't think people should edit what they wrote---unless it's REALLY bad. You wrote what you did in the heat of the moment. If this was in person, you couldn't take it back...

Which is why I view editing a post as a great tool. We aren't in person. Why pretend we are. Why not use the tools available to make yourself as clear as possible in writing. It's even more important to do so when we're not in person because we don't have body language and vocal intonations to help us communicate--just a bunch of smilies and the editing feature.

 

[U2girl]

Originally posted by The_Sweetest_Thing:
If this was in person, you couldn't take it back...

Exactly, but because it's not in person - you can change what you said. And that's a good thing, no?

Now i don't know about other "editors" (BTW: are the people reading edited posts "editees"?

- i usually edit to add something i forgot to say but it fits in the original post's spirit, most likely in a heated debate.
Or (being a non native English speaker) i may have found a better/more suitable idea how to say than i originally intented.
Or (wanting to be exact) i found a typo in my post.
Or, in some cases, i'm just too lazy to start another reply.

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[U2girl]

Originally posted by WhackaMole:
I can't use the "H" word

You mean "Hipocrite" or some other word?

 

[z edge]

Originally posted by U2girl:
You mean "Hippopatomus" or some other word?

Yeah, hippio is right

 

[Angela Harlem]

And what's a Hippio mr z wedgy?

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[z edge]

a hippo is a big fat animal similair to a rhino minus horns and rough exterior, lives in africa and likes to sleep in muddy water to cool off from the sun and has birds that live on its back to nibble on insects in its skin.

 

[The_Sweetest_Thing]

I don't know. I'm so undecided. In a way, I suppose, editing is a good thing. But in a way, we never really get to see WHO everyone is, how they act in heated deabtes. If everyone went back and edited their posts, we wouldn't have real conversations now, would we? It'd all be some backwards, through time space thing that no one understands. We sometimes miss out on great things being said in heated discussions. We don't get to see who has a raging temper. We never know who can hold it in the moment, and who crumbles hopelessly.

On the other hand, editing posts takes away some of the really negative things people post when they're angry. So, for the sake of sparing people's feelings....


I don't know.

 

[guaca]

Oh forget it now. Everyone totally misunderstood my confession - what else is new. I don't have anything against people editing posts really. The day I wrote that confession I was in LS and I was trying to follow a thread that was a debate. But what started out as a debate turned into something that was not very easy to follow.

When people say something and then go back and change it later on, the flow of the thread gets lost is all I was trying to say.

Typos, and changing words here or there - it doesn't make any difference. Taking out your whole post and leaving it blank or whatever that's fine too if that's what you want to do. Whatever....nevermind, I promise never to confess again on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Originally posted by WhackaMole:
Oh forget it now. Everyone totally misunderstood my confession - what else is new. I don't have anything against people editing posts really. The day I wrote that confession I was in LS and I was trying to follow a thread that was a debate. But what started out as a debate turned into something that was not very easy to follow.

When people say something and then go back and change it later on, the flow of the thread gets lost is all I was trying to say.

Typos, and changing words here or there - it doesn't make any difference. Taking out your whole post and leaving it blank or whatever that's fine too if that's what you want to do. Whatever....nevermind, I promise never to confess again on the grounds that it may incriminate me.

Aw, I understand what you're saying and I don't disagree. I like to edit, but I have also had the experience you describe, of trying to follow a debate and discovering a chunk has been edited out. Please don't stop confessing. We still want to know all your secrets.