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Why is my thread locked??
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Mal,
Why is this a setting on this site. Why would you not let someone edit there own post beyond 4 days for whatever reason. Here is an example for you.
I posted pictures in the shotgun forum of several shotguns I own. I was notified that no one could see them. So I moved them to another hosting site which would solve the problem. Unfortuniately now I can't go in and change the address of the pictures. It seems to me that this rule will make the posts longer with all these double posts.
Could you please inlighten me please.
Jim
Why is this a setting on this site. Why would you not let someone edit there own post beyond 4 days for whatever reason. Here is an example for you.
I posted pictures in the shotgun forum of several shotguns I own. I was notified that no one could see them. So I moved them to another hosting site which would solve the problem. Unfortuniately now I can't go in and change the address of the pictures. It seems to me that this rule will make the posts longer with all these double posts.
Could you please inlighten me please.
Jim
Tim,
I understand that part, but it still creates a longer post then needed. If we were allowed to edit the original post without a time limit. Then this isn't an issue, at least with me anyway. I am just curious why the 4 day limit.
Sorry, I probably didn't explain that very well the first time. Here is a link to the post I was referring to. I re-posted my pictures using the reply button.
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2769420#post2769420
Jim
I understand that part, but it still creates a longer post then needed. If we were allowed to edit the original post without a time limit. Then this isn't an issue, at least with me anyway. I am just curious why the 4 day limit.
Sorry, I probably didn't explain that very well the first time. Here is a link to the post I was referring to. I re-posted my pictures using the reply button.
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2769420#post2769420
Jim
If there aren't limits on editing, someone could go back and edit his posts weeks or months later and totally change the meaning of a thread. For example, a thread that has a few hundred posts and the OP goes back a month later and removes his posts - the thread would probably no longer make sense.
At some point, what is posted become part of the permanent record of the forum. No matter what particular amount of elapsed time is chosen, there would be good reasons to make it longer or shorter.
Fisher,
I've made the picture changes to your original post and deleted the reply.
Fisher,
I've made the picture changes to your original post and deleted the reply.
Don't worry, I don't think anyone has taken offense--I certainly haven't. 
I haven't done a real check of all the forums I'm registered on, but my offhand impression is that it's about 50/50 as to whether there's some cutoff point after which editing one's own posts is no longer possible. In addition, the cutoff point does vary considerably, however.
I can't tell the exact number at THR but it's somewhere between 1 and 4 days, the Beretta Forum cuts off in less than a day.
I haven't done a real check of all the forums I'm registered on, but my offhand impression is that it's about 50/50 as to whether there's some cutoff point after which editing one's own posts is no longer possible. In addition, the cutoff point does vary considerably, however.
I can't tell the exact number at THR but it's somewhere between 1 and 4 days, the Beretta Forum cuts off in less than a day.