Larian Studios Forums General About this website timers on editing your own posts?

To the powers that be: Any way to increase or (better) eliminate the timer on editing your own post? A lot of us like to tinker with our previous posts.

thanks

I would appreciate an increased rate, too. I believe it is more practical to keep thread info together than breaking it up.
Kiya

what do you all mean, I can't seem to follow you guys/women

Not? So you didn't try to change something you posted after sending it till now? Then just write something stupid and then try to make it undone, you just can't <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I agree, this timer is not really handy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
It's not possible to correct spelling mistakes some time after you made them, it's not possible to correct links after a while etc.

Would be nice if this timer could be disabled. A good mechanism would be to have the "this post has been edited by" text appear if someone else has replied in the meantime, but otherwise editing one's post should not be punished.
Sure, there is the new nifty preview feature, but that alone is often not enough in my opinion.

Meow...
Arhu

The FAQ says you can Edit for one hour.

correct spelling? are there any English teachers on these forums? otherwise why care for some glitches?

Well, Dragh, just think of the RPG glossary/Wasteland Chronicles = how will I be able to update it with this timer, hm?
Kiya

Off hand, I don't believe I have made one elaborate post that I have not gone back and edited at a later time to add detail, clarify a point, etc. Some topics, like my 'Lost items' post, get updated with new information periodically. When I did a few calculations on the benefits of the Wisdom skill, a couple of points were brought up causing me to try some other variations, which I added to the original post. If this information was spread out over three or more posts throughout the topic, it would make it much harder to get an overview of the skill.

Having to reply to the topic to make additions or corrections is messy, unorganized and will detract from the usefulness of the forum.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: It looks to me like they have now turned the timer off. can anyone confirm this?

Yep, seems so. I can change now postings from yesterday.

Swift reacting lynn!!!

Thank you very much, Lynn.
Kiya <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Addendum: Ok, thank you very much Lar

Thank you but... credits go to Lar this time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
The timer is set on 48 hours now. Don't know if we can make it longer, I'll have a look into it.

Kudos Lar !!

great job <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Who sais Larian doesn't visit their forums enough?? He may stay away.

kewl

kewl ?? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

kewl just looks cooler than "cool" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

it's just harder to understand if you haven't heard it b4 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

well, kewler anyway <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

sorry, throw back to long gone days.

which one is the smiley that keeps on dissapearing?

It seems the board replaces the smilie-code directly with the html-code pointing to the smilie. And since the new <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> doesn't seem to hear on the name "wink.gif" it isn't displayed...

thank you