Would be great to edit our post ...

Italy
October 8, 2011 10:46am CST
Hi, i like the concept of mylot but sometime i need to edit my own messages to correct errors or inaccuracies that have passed me by. What do you think about ?
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@rollylolly (2843)
• India
8 Oct 11
I think this is a very good suggestion and the mylot admin should try to incorporate . I used to previously write in a ladies forum (non-profit) where we had this option . The editing button was operative for 15 mins . Many times we feel the need to change some views . Hope this addition is made .
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• Italy
8 Oct 11
Yes, 5 minutes should be enough to add some sentences that come out in our mind after posting.
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
8 Oct 11
Yes this is one of the more glaring issues with myLot. In fact the one flaw that I can seen with this otherwise great website. Granted its not so much of an error thing(even though those do crop up, despite looking at my posts up and down, left to right, and backwards), but rather there are sometimes where I tend to get trigger happy with the post button and post before I complete a thought. You can talk about how you should look over your posts until you get blue in the face but that doesn't really fly when momentum is running high. There are just a lot of times where I really am going to keep positing, posting, and often times, I get into a grove, the creative juices are flowing, and you get excited. An edit button would be a great help but myLot has foolishly decided not to have one ,which would prevent this website from being perfect. Still great, but not really perfect.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Oct 11
megamatt what do you think the preview and edit buttons are for, just preview look to see any red or blue lines under errors,hit edit to corrct, correct and hit post . it is all there for us to use before we ever hit post.
@CarlHalling (3617)
• United Kingdom
8 Oct 11
There are times when I realise I've written a message with mistakes in it that I'd like to edit it, but for me, the fact that we cannot change or delete our posts here at My Lot is one of its best features. Because once a post is sent, it's preserved, almost like a minitiure work of art: for my part it gives me a unique sense of satisfaction to post here because of that feature. Indeed, My Lot is one of the few sites on the internet as I see it that still has that feature; and it's to My Lot's credit in my opinion. That said, I must admit I don't like reading my posts back and realising I've made a foolish error. I normally read my posts before sending, but not always I guess.
• Italy
8 Oct 11
Of course, mylot could introduce the possibility to edit 5 minutes after publication or anyway with a minimum time limit. Some boards will provide the ability to edit posts after 30 minutes.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Oct 11
three times lost start again copy You forgot we have preview and ed it, we are supposed to review, check for errors ,then if we have them hit edit and correct, then hit post.of course if we had an edit button after hitting post it would be nice but we are supposed to have edited first.I think a lot of us do not even notice the preview and edit button choices and we should use them as the admins has not seen fit to give us the extra option after hitting post.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Oct 11
May a make a soft little reproof here,you picked best response just minutes after you posted this, you did not give all of us a chance to even read it before giving the br. in the guidelines you may have missed mylot admins does suggest waiting a week before choosing best response so that all of us have had a chance to read your discussion. also in my eyes this looks like you had already decided before getting but one response who you wanted to give the br too, that's not fair as the best response should not be given to a friend but to who ever really made the best response. I wish you would have taken a little time to read the guidelines as picking friends is not fair,this should not be based on friends but on the best response no matter if this person is a friend or not.
• Italy
8 Oct 11
Certainly, edit after post can still be useful to refine, would be an added value not a necessity. Sorry i'm new i have missed rule for best response, even in this case i thought that i can change best response in the course of discussion ! Thanks for advice i have to read with more attention guidelines and let me say that i have never give best response to my friends. I have only 6 friends and no one of them have receive a best response. I think that even after a week there might be a better response, and following this logic to moral debate we should never give the best response (if we can't change it) because there may always be a better answer !
• India
8 Oct 11
I don't think I much care about my old responds on mylot I do check twice before submitting anything but I have never used the preview button or ever looked at my older posts. If my posts get comments or replays I do replay them but it is rare that I will read my own post again after posting.
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@waflay (2737)
• Nairobi, Kenya
8 Oct 11
I think it should have been like in messages where there is no direct post tab but a post should go through verification first before adding a tag then send . That way, it could save people like me from posting then, oh my God..damn error again.