Should mylot add an edit option to discussions you have started?

@willocfc (963)
Australia
January 29, 2007 8:47am CST
If you are like me then sometimes you realise your typos after you have already posted your discussion. Do you think mylot should add an edit option where you can edit your discussions?
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9 responses
• Philippines
29 Jan 07
Yes, there should be an edit button, sometimes when you typed really fast you will not notice that there's a typo on your post. But since myLot don't have that feature yet, I got a real-time spell checker in my Firefox browser, so I know If I have a typo before I post it.
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• Philippines
30 Jan 07
Honestly, I don't remember where I got the spell checker, maybe it's a built-in feature of Firefox 2
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
I use firefox too but wasnt aware there was a spellchecker you could use. where do i get it from?
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@Bizziebod (3497)
29 Jan 07
I think they should give you a final chance to edit before you post it I guess but not after it's actually been posted, that way people would try and get away with all kinds of things! I usually read through mine a couple of times before I hit the post button, might be worth double checking before hand or even typing it out in word, scanning for spelling mistakes then cutting and pasting into here?
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
maybe a spellcheck option is the answer then, you cant cut and paste until you have reached a certain number of post so for alot of us thats not an option yet
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@chocks (512)
• India
29 Jan 07
Yeah sure i even recommend it for response also.Its is nice to have it,because i would correct my mistake if something is wrong.
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
Thanks for your responce, we all make typos it would just be nice to be able to fix them
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@kiwimac (323)
• New Zealand
29 Jan 07
Yes, please! An edit option would be wonderful. I use iespell to help but even then I sometimes post before I mean to (I mean to preview & I hit post instead!) kiwimac
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
Its frustrating also when you cant cut and paste till you reach a certian number of posts so its not like you can type it out elsewhere and then paste it into here after a spellcheck
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@Zaphry (233)
• Finland
29 Jan 07
well i make sometime alot spelling mistakes so there should be edit option -.-
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@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
I have the same problem, perhaps we need a spellcheck option as well.... hmmmmmm
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
5 Feb 07
yesterday i almost posted a discussion with this same topic...i think it's necessary that we can edit our own posts...at least for about 5 minutes after they're posted, that way we'd save redundant posts etc and the quality would be better. other sites i've been to have this option so i hope that our admins here in mylot listen to our suggestion
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
6 Feb 07
Thanks for your response Lightnin Now i have updated to the new version of mozilla with the built in spell check i am finding things alot easier, but still i think an edit option is a necessary addition, and I'm not sure why they don't have one
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• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
well willo, sometimes things are not come up with until someone else suggests them, so let's hope that someone who has the power to do something about it reads this discussion you started. It would be very benefitial for us all. However, i still believe that the editing option should only last a couple of minutes, or 5 maximum, like in other sites like opendiary. Otherwise you create a discussion, you get 40 replies and then you change the reason to all those replies? the guys who replied might not like the new text, so that should be avoided...it's enough with a couple minutes to correct any possible mistake.
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@rracers89 (3246)
• United States
29 Jan 07
i really wish they would, just yesterday i posted something and relized that i for got to add a few things and i had to wait till someone posted an awnser before I could add the info. I knoww several people have emailed them with this suggestion.
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
29 Jan 07
do you know if they recieved any responce?
• France
6 Feb 07
yes very good post. mylot should provide those options...
• India
5 Feb 07
i tink there's already a edit option there bt not after posting bt before,,,when u can preview ur response...bt yes.there shd be some option like that so that mistakes can be made correct,