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[sambul61]

Along the lines of fixing new site outstanding issues...

Now a poster can deselect Show "Edited by" line in forum posts. The suggestion is to remove deselect option from Member posts once a certain time period expired, since Edit date is added now to all regular member posts. Of course, editing posts may be required later, as user knowledge progresses - especially useful for Tutorials. But I noticed, some guys tend to use old post links in their arguments with others. So, they edit the old post first, then argue they said a different thing in the past. To prevent such empty arguments and cut down off topic or flaming postings, its better to have ONE RULE FOR ALL MEMBERS:

ALL POSTS ARE STAMPED WITH CREATION AND LAST EDITION DATE.

The Date Stamp is fair solution to every Board member - equal rights in presenting supporting or illustrating docs. No cheating... It also makes sense to ensure, a previous post after editing remains coherent with subsequent thread discussion. If a post looks better without Edited By line, then every member should be able to activate that line in any forum post (not only his own posts), so it becomes visible. And of course no-one should be able to edit Post Date regardless of access rights.

[Brito]

I agree with this request, albeit not really sure if we can implement this behavior.

A user should have a time span without need for the edited line to appear.

After a few days, if changes are made it is clearer if this tag is applied.

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Currently, new members below 100 posts are not even allowed to edit their posts after a few hours. We did this to prevent spammers from adding bad posts later.


Sambul61 and others, we do have a new section for requests inside the Site Feedback section. I've moved this topic to there.