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Frenchy
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Posted: Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 11:48 PM UTC
It's the second time I experience such a thing : the "edit" button simply disappears at the bottom of my post

What's going on ?

TIA
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 12:00 AM UTC
The edit button does disappear after 24 or 48 hours. Can't remember which right now. After that time you would need to make a new post for corrections/changes.

Jim
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 12:15 AM UTC
It's 24 hours because posts I made early Thursday are non-editable.
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 12:18 AM UTC

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It's 24 hours because posts I made early Thursday are non-editable.

It is immediate now since I cannot edit the post I just made above
Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 12:25 AM UTC
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It is immediate now since I cannot edit the post I just made above



:-) That's just what I was about to say ! Glad to see I'm not alone

Frenchy

PS In the meantime I will think twice before posting ...
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 02:20 AM UTC
Yep, me too. I can't edit I post I made just a couple of hours ago.

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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 02:32 AM UTC
Ahh...I made some formatting changes to the buttons... must have buggered something up.

Jim
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 02:41 AM UTC
Found it... fixed.

Jim
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 04:22 AM UTC
Shiny....

Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 11:46 AM UTC
Thanks Jim ! Now I can make all the typos I want

Frenchy
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Posted: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 11:52 AM UTC

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Thanks Jim ! Now I can make all the typos I want



Or use ieSpell before you post..

mauserman
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Posted: Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 09:15 PM UTC

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Thanks Jim ! Now I can make all the typos I want



Or use ieSpell before you post..




Neat add-on Henk. Thanks for the tip.
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Posted: Sunday, December 17, 2006 - 08:41 PM UTC
A gaming forum that i'm a member of uses a preview button so you can see what you post looks like with all the smileys, etc and lets you proofread you post before submitting it. Maybe its something we could have in the future?
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