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Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Fri May 29, 2015 2:47 am

Dear dustin,

Now that the forums are back in the Sillysoft domain, could you please reinstitute the practice of having all edited posts noted as such? (Unless one edits their own post AND it's the most recent in the topic, of course.)

Most sincerely,

TSK
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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by paranoiarodeo » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:09 pm

Dear Ms. Knot:

We've received your letter and regret to inform you that simply transferring the forums from one domain name to another did not alter the fundamental limitations of the forum software. In other words, there is no practical way to force a timestamped footnote whenever a forum administrator or moderator edits a post, unless he or she chooses to leave one.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:06 pm

Hrm. Didn't Drifter leave that cattle prod behind?

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Post by paranoiarodeo » Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:08 pm

He did, but we sent it to Justin Beaver.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by dustin » Fri Aug 28, 2015 2:34 am

I made a tweak to the forum software, so that all edits from now on (except editing your own most recent post) should be marked by footnotes in the post. You can see one in your original post above.

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Post by The Silken Knot » Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:47 pm

I don't know what to say! (Pretty rare for me, eh?)

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by Red Beard » Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:30 pm

Hurray! A useful change!

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:01 pm

Off again? Software update?

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by Owned » Thu Jan 28, 2016 2:54 pm

There is no footnote created for an edit on the last post of a thread by the original poster. If that is what you are referring to as being off again then I can't help you with that. As far as I know it has been like that since the forum update. And in my personal opinion I like this option. I often make small mistakes that I glance over.

Whereas if Beans edited it after someone else posted then I have no idea how such a thing occurred.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by Bean » Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:22 pm

i don't plan to do any real estate or car deals on here; what if someone changes the price!?

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:10 pm

Owned wrote:There is no footnote created for an edit on the last post of a thread by the original poster. If that is what you are referring to as being off again then I can't help you with that. As far as I know it has been like that since the forum update. And in my personal opinion I like this option. I often make small mistakes that I glance over.

Whereas if Beans edited it after someone else posted then I have no idea how such a thing occurred.
I think it may have been affected by a forum software update. The Google, etc. bots are also showing up in the 'Who's Online" again, in the same basic timeframe, so it makes sense that that's what happened. If so, it would be greatly appreciated if dustin could reinstate his own update. More an admin than mod issue, I think. That's all.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:20 pm

Here's a better example: your Castles signup post. It shows the last edit as January 19th, but includes players who've signed up since then.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by Owned » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:31 pm

Ahh ok, thanks for the heads up.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by dustin » Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:53 pm

I did update the forum software to the most recent version. Some custom mods could have been over-written, lemme check...

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by dustin » Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:14 pm

Took me a sec to find where the change had come from. It's back in place now.

In case I ever need to restore it again, here's the link for my future reference.

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Re: Forum Editing...

Post by The Silken Knot » Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:36 pm

Thanks! :smt058

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