Good News For John Bridgman Et Al

[EarthMind]

I've always wondered: why limit the edit time while you can recruit some community moderators?

[PsynoKhi0]

John, who leads AMD's open-source strategy and posts on our forums as part of his AMD Linux work, has written over 5,600 posts in less than four years. This trumps even my 5,496 over the course of five years or that of the Phoronix Forums news-posting bot.

Aaaaah... I see... THAT's why you're implementing it now

j/k, thanks for that change, at long last.

EDIT: might as well start abusing it...
Have you considered having a minimum time window before posts can be edited? You know, so that blunders are available for all to see for a bit

[bwat47]

thank god, I have never seen a single forum besides this one that imposed such a ridiculous limit.

[deanjo]

Thanks for making the change to the edit limit. Perhaps at a later date this should be reviewed and adjusted to say maybe 24 hrs as most forums allow 1 day for changes to posts

A 1 day edit limit is dumb. In reality if you need to do an edit for legitimate reasons even 5 minutes should suffice for almost everything. Beyond that a person should be posting a new post.

[DeepDayze]

Thanks for making the change to the edit limit. Perhaps at a later date this should be reviewed and adjusted to say maybe 24 hrs as most forums allow 1 day for changes to posts

[gilboa]

Free at last,
Free at last,
Thank God almighty, free at last!

[nico342]

I like those unreadable CAPTCHA

[kbios]

Wonderful. Thanks Michael!

[Nevertime]

Phoronix is turning seven years old in two weeks from now,

How about a 7 year limit so people can go back and finally fix all the embarrassing blunders and ill thought out opinions that they've made.

[V!NCENT]

Veyenihl-e!

EDIT: Vynily
EDIT2: Fynaly!
EDIT3: Fynally!
EDIT4: Finally!

EDIT5: Ah... the freedom! =D

BTW I long figured out that removing wasn't a problem, so I just copy->delete->paste->change->replied. But that edit time was horrendous! Thank God this is reversed!