Editing posts after 24 hours ?

hi !

i just discovered that it´s NOT possible anymore to edit your OWN posts after 24 hours !

i think this is REALLY bad, if i want to update with new information, or just edit a typo / grammar,
i should be able to do it anytime.
it has happened more then once that i have discovered a typo several weeks after posting....
i can understand that a post is "locked" from delete after 24 hours, that is REALLY good.

as a fresh example , today i wanted to update my BIG post:
http://forum.thewindowsclub.com/wind...mance-etc.html
with new info about new ramdisk-software that i installed earlier today.

but i couldn´t do it, i had to PM Andy, asking for help....

Poll: what do you think, should we be able to edit our own posts anytime ?

I think the edit button should be disabled IF there is a reply to your post. This prevents posters from editing after a reply and changing their post to mak ethe replier look silly.
On any forum that I reply to, I expect that the post I am replying to will stay the same and not be edited later and thus could make my reply look daft.
I see no problem with making a fresh post and stating that it is an update to your previous one.
dave

Thats exactly why alot of sites dont allow it: PEOPLE CHANGE THIER REPLYS AND THEN THE THREAD IS OUT OF SORTS..

It IS a pain but due to people liking to cause trouble,i can understand it :)

After implementing 3 minor security measure
1. Disabling editing of posts after 24 hrs
2. Disallowing new members with less than a particular no.of posts, to post live url/links
3. And one more

Life has been a lot easier for us.

No porn posts. No Spam/shareware posts to delete.

There are some who may make an innocent new post and then come back after maybe weeks when the posts goes a bit cold to edit their own posts and insert sharware links or maybe even a malicious code. Its then impossible to control it.

If its imp I suggest you ask me, and I will edit it. Else its always a good idea to make a new post in that topic, so that everyone knows that there is an update to that thread; else there is always the possibility that the updated 1st post may go unnoticed.

HappyAndyK clear this matter now