Restricted Editing and Good Things

[KathyBradford]

Paul, I'm sorry you have to deal with so many childish situations. On another thread, I saw that the actions of one required that you remove the editing option for everyone.

It seems that as soon as I hit the "Submit" button, I see a typo or remember one final thought. Is there any way to make a very short window of time available for personal editing? Even ten minutes might make the difference between looking like an illiterate and possibly contributing something of value.

Is it possible to make the moderators comments untouchable? They've earned a permanent voice.

Thank you for your perpetual patience.

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Yes it is too bad. I always have to go back and fix my spelling errors.

[JimKindred]

What is the chance of bringing back the editing feature? I do not know of the thread that caused it to be deleted but it really is a shame to see it go.

[RyanBWeddle]

What is the chance of bringing back the editing feature? I do not know of the thread that caused it to be deleted but it really is a shame to see it go.

Yeah, bring it back please. Ban those that abuse it!

[paulcalloway]

I hear you - I hate to see it go too. Maybe a lesson was learned here - it seems periodically those lessons have to be retaught. We'll turn editing back on up to 24 hours - so you should be able to edit your posts as long as you're editing within 24 hours of the original post.

For the record however, if a Moderator sees fit to put a remark in your post - leave it there.

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo Kameraden!

As I have often shared in Modland, a "hat" I previously wore was "Civil Rights Officer" for the largest county in this state- working with federal and state officials and courts.

So, I developed, wrote, implemented, enforced, and defended in court-"policy, procedure, and protocol (PPP)." As well as investigated violations of state and federal law caused by others' PPP (or lack of them).

A key factor in that, was established and published "rules."

As a former socio-psychologist and professor, I see that people of many
differing educational backgrounds, life experiences, personality pluses and deficits, expectations, wants and needs, hopes and goals, and unique as well as shared Mental Pictures, all come to the AC Forum.

Being here, and being allowed to post and share here, is an earned privilege not an automatic "ENTITLEMENT."

It is the vision, application, work, effort, results, and property of Paul Calloway.

The AC Forum has its own goals and objectives, its own mission and purpose. While we all have our own unique Mental Pictures, personal and even shared visions here, there are PPP's for the AC Forum- some published, some not.

If a poster wishes to violate them, through their own personal agenda, politics, personality issues and deficits, upbringing, socialization patterns, Life's Experiences, presentation, style, etc., etc- they may lose the invitation and the privilege of membership and posting here.

Choose the thoughts, choose the behavior.
Choose the behavior, choose the consequences.

Curt-Heinrich Schmidt

And now we are possibly seeing members manipulating the Reputation Point feature to "punish" those they disagree with or dislike.

Much like the "Rate a Teacher" website, where the student blasts his/he teacher, from a distance and with total impugnity, because the teacher refused to allow them to sleep through their class.

[paulcalloway]

Paul, I'm sorry you have to deal with so many childish situations. On another thread, I saw that the actions of one required that you remove the editing option for everyone.

It seems that as soon as I hit the "Submit" button, I see a typo or remember one final thought. Is there any way to make a very short window of time available for personal editing? Even ten minutes might make the difference between looking like an illiterate and possibly contributing something of value.

Is it possible to make the moderators comments untouchable? They've earned a permanent voice.

Thank you for your perpetual patience.
For the record, this post and thread has nothing to do with another post I made in the News folder about openly questioning the moderators. This was a legitimate question... I was referring to some other very specific posts where a moderators motives were called into question.