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iSec Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1140	Post Options Post Reply Quote iSec Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Suggestion for WebWiz Forums Posted: 09 November 2007 at 6:30pm
	Other Bulletin Board System (like VBulletin) do it this way: If a user posts something and goes back to their post within a few minutes of posting it, and edit their post, the 'edited by' stamp does not appear at the bottom of the post.... and if the user edits his/her post more than a few minutes later then the edited by stamp will appear. Currently with webwiz forum, if i was to edit my post the 'edited by' stamp appears at the bottom of my post... no matter how shortly i do it after i posted the message. My suggestion is to make it so that the 'edited by' appears only if the user edits their post 3 minutes+ after posting the message. Hope this makes sense.
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WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 November 2007 at 7:04pm
	Certainly a good idea and should be easy to implement. However one of the reason for having the edited by feature is so that users who receive email notification know that the post is different to what they got in their notification. If the edited by doesn't appear they will not know the online post is different to what they received in their email notification.
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iSec Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1140	Post Options Post Reply Quote iSec Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09 November 2007 at 10:23pm
	I see now... but what are the chances the user changes the entire content of their original post?Also, not all webmasters allow the entire post to be sent with the email notification. I personally allow only the link to be sent.
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Scotty32 Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 30 November 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote Scotty32 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 November 2007 at 11:43am
	If this is added i would recommend it be optional, as i would like ALL posts edited within ANY time from to have the edited by stamp. And i think there are other forums which the nature of them they would require it to always show and others, it doesnt matter, and other forums would never want it to show.
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iSec Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 February 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1140	Post Options Post Reply Quote iSec Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 November 2007 at 6:18pm
	I think making it an option is better with options like: Show 'edited by' stamp if edited within 1 minute(s) Show 'edited by' stamp if edited within 3 minute(s) Show 'edited by' stamp if edited within 5 minute(s) Never Show 'edited by' stamp.
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