Radrook

These are helpful in

1. Erasing a hasty regretted response.
2. Avoiding having to deal with the inevitable occasional disgruntled heckler.

Arw65

I do believe we've all wished for these.- i know i have.

Radrook

Typoss are common and so are hasty remarks, A real pity that such a commonly found option is missing. Private messaging is also something I miss here. Blogging privileges would also improve the forum.

chelydra

I thought about the edit option, or rather the lack of it, when my typos first made me crazy a couple of years back, and then it occurred to me it why it actually makes sense not to have it — the value of comments on pictures is that they are spontaneous first impressions. Even in forums, there's a live-wire quality to the discussions that would soon be edited away if we all started trying to sound eloquent or level-headed or whatever. Much as we as individuals would prefer to look good to posterity, and recover our dignity after blurting out or revealing something that would have been better left unsaid, the site as whole would start to die if everything was always being watered down or refined or tweaked to seem more witty or whatever.

chelydra

Right now I would edit what I just wrote twenty seconds ago if I had the chance. But suppose it got a couple of replies and THEN I decided to edit it — I might delete or alter what someone else had been replying to, and then THEIR comment would look dumb and pointless. Then they'd want to edit theirs, and so on, and on, and on. Someone arriving fresh at that forum would have no idea what was going on, because there wouldn't be an unfolding dialogue follow, just a series of individual remarks that might each be perfect but wouldn't connect.

chelydra

an unfolding dialogue TO follow, I meant to say. (How come we don't have an edit function here dammit!)

chelydra

Should said "darn it!" - sorry! (The case against the edit option gets weaker with every retraction and correction, but I still think my points were valid after replies appear and a dialogue starts to develop.)

marg

Mmm.. all I can say is that you've said it all, chelydra - and what a brilliant pic you have as your profile

I think you're working through something that we all worked through a year or two ago, and we all have comments that maybe we wish we hadn't posted (especially a couple of years ago).

I know that there are lots of 'off site' relationships that have started through ThinkDraw, and I know that with most of the people that I'm in touch with, the relationship is based on what people say or what their pictures tell you of them, or shared TD experiences (if you know what I mean).

You just get this gut feel as to who you think you would like to link up with and whether they would like to talk to you.. really the same as in real life.

I've digressed, but I think that the way we have it now, with hasty comments being retained, is fine - and from past experience, I know that if someone gets too tired & emotional late at night, TD will remove theiur offensive comments, if you give them a heads-up.

chelydra

Oops — I meant to write I "should HAVE said darn it". Oy vey.
Thanks Marg, my first-ever TD buddy, who welcomed me when I first arrived, for the complement (same to you), and for letting us know about the option of arranging for major errors of judgment to be deleted. (After erasing everything I've said in the past, I'll put all my future contributions straight into the new Quarantine zone, out of harm's way.)

Radrook

Many websites I have seen restrict the editing time to a few minutes after the initial draft. These websites are doing just fine.

chelydra

So the notorious Radrook had already answered my question (posed in a PS to my latest long Quarantined Acrimonious Rant). Implementing this 5-minute grace period would do wonders for almost everything I post, and I'm not the only who gets bogged down in appending corrections, then correcting the corrections, ad absurdum. Let's do it, and then when the restless ghost of Radrook lurks invisible in our midst, he may be reminded that he doesn't always have to be such a useless prick.