can we have the edited by poster by default.

[adarw]

I think its better for clarification if it said it was edited. but many people overlook the button and just edit, even tho they would have liked to show they edited it. can we have it default, say edited, or at least make a setting we can do?

[aisle9]

I'd be against this. 80% of my posts would show up as edited because I go back in to fix a typo or change a word or whatever. I suspect there are many others who are the same way. I don't want or need to stare at a big orange bar between every other post telling me that someone like me saw "there" instead of "their" and decided to fix it.

[SansVarnic]

22 minutes ago, adarw said:

I think its better for clarification if it said it was edited. but many people overlook the button and just edit, even tho they would have liked to show they edited it. can we have it default, say edited, or at least make a setting we can do?

You mean this?

This is what all members see when they edit a post/topic. ^^^^^^

 

 

Its not on by default. But you can select when you make the edit. There is no reason to set this to a default and as mentioned this may not be received well by the community as a whole.

[Master Disaster]

2 hours ago, aisle9 said:

I'd be against this. 80% of my posts would show up as edited because I go back in to fix a typo or change a word or whatever. I suspect there are many others who are the same way. I don't want or need to stare at a big orange bar between every other post telling me that someone like me saw "there" instead of "their" and decided to fix it.

So its not just me then?

[Arika]

I'm pretty sure this was bought up a while ago and Mortis suggested a change like just a simple "edited" marker above the post (where the time stamp is) as opposed to the full information that would come with that being ticked as the default. not sure where that ended up

 

EDIT: test for the above

[Spotty]

16 minutes ago, Arika S said:

I'm pretty sure this was bought up a while ago and Mortis suggested a change like just a simple "edited" marker above the post (where the time stamp is) as opposed to the full information that would come with that being ticked as the default. not sure where that ended up

Try editing your post and see. It should show (edited) next to the timestamp if the post has been edited. I'm not sure if it only shows when the checkbox to show the post has been edited is selected - Mods see all edits regardless.

[Arika]

9 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Try editing your post and see. It should show (edited) next to the timestamp if the post has been edited. I'm not sure if it only shows when the checkbox to show the post has been edited is selected - Mods see all edits regardless.

nope

 

[Spotty]

5 minutes ago, Arika S said:

nope

Hmm. Must be a permissions thing where only people who can see that the post has been edited can see it. Kinda defeats the purpose but I'm not sure if it's possible to work around those user permissions.

 

Edit: Try refreshing the page after editing it.

Edited August 19, 2021 by Spotty

[Arika]

6 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Hmm. Must be a permissions thing where only people who can see that the post has been edited can see it. Kinda defeats the purpose but I'm not sure if it's possible to work around those user permissions.

yeah (edited) only shows up when the checkbox is selected. 

 

EDIT: as seen here   

 

 

and can be re-hidden by editing the message again and making sure the box is not ticked this time

[pythonmegapixel]

I'm a few days late to this thread, but I think in an ideal world it would automatically say "Edited" if the edit changes the character count significantly, but otherwise it would only say it if requested by the user.

 

If you are correcting typos to the extent that the new version is significantly longer or shorter than the old one then your post must have been incomprehensible to start with, so clarifying that it has been edited can only be a good thing!

[MultiGamerClub]

Meanwhile on the 4 other forums before this one had edits automaticly shown.. So on this forum i either show an "edit: message here" or write in the actual box down below and tick the mark to show its been edited if i made a correction, grammar or added more text to my post.. Just to show i did it or rather to let people know the post has been edited and not hide it.. Really didnt think too much of it until i saw this post.