Editing comments

by Sue Bailey

This post was written in February 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Just a quick note to say that as requested by Lynne, Jade and others, it’s now possible to edit comments. You have two three minutes (approximately) from leaving your comment in which you can edit it: after that time, the edit function will not be available.

Please feel free to have a play with this function in the comments on this post ;-) If you have any problem with it, PLEASE PLEASE leave me a comment including what error message you got, if any, and exactly what you saw and how that differed from what you were expecting to see. Also let me know what browser you’re using. (Mac people, that goes double for you; my current Mac testing facilities are horribly out of date, so I’m relying on you :-) )

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Author: Sue Bailey
Posted at: Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
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46 Responses to “Editing comments”

  1. Jade on February 9th, 2008 7:24 pm

    Hoorah now I dont have to look stuch a twit!

  2. Jade on February 9th, 2008 7:26 pm

    It works, the 2 minute deadline adds a littkle extra panic :!: , but it works, well done Biddy! :grin:
    Im using firefox, on vista. and you have to actually click on the text, but the cursor doesnt change to a hand “link” or anything so was not sure it was gonna work but it did.

  3. Jade on February 9th, 2008 7:27 pm

    All I can think of is the countdown them tune :-) oh what joy!

  4. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 7:30 pm

    2 minutes can be changed if it’s not long enough - but I want to keep it short enough that people can’t (for example) see that a later poster has disagreed with them, and go back and change the post based on that. It should be used for clarification, spelling, etc., not for changing tack completely.

    I should also say the world’s biggest thank you to Ronald from the Reader Appreciation Project for the lovely, lovely plugin. All WP users should be using this one IMHO.

  5. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 7:31 pm

    Ba-da, ba-da, ba-da-ba-da… PEW!!!

  6. Jade on February 9th, 2008 7:46 pm

    hmm, I agree it would be unproductive to have everyone being able to edit and re-edit their view point to make the following posts seem out of date. I think that maybe 3 mins would take some of the stress out of it?

  7. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 8:13 pm

    Okay, I made it three minutes. I’m not sure that’s not a bit long sometimes, but lets see how it goes.

  8. Jade on February 9th, 2008 8:43 pm

    don’t listen to me anyway, I don’t know what I’m on about half the time! :shock:

  9. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 8:48 pm

    Shush, you’re here expressing an opinion, which wins you a lot of points :lol:

    It’s really down to the speed of the conversation. 3 mins ought to be short enough that no one jumps in and responds immediately, but it’s not always that way… we’ll just have to stop mentioning feedback and eBid :lol:

  10. Josordoni on February 9th, 2008 10:36 pm

    3 mins is fine for the sort of “oh my god I didn’t half go on” that I get within roughly 15 seconds of pressing “send”…. :roll: :roll:

  11. Josordoni on February 9th, 2008 10:37 pm

    Yup, working fine… and I get a cute countdown too…

    Houston, we have lift off….

    Thanks Sue! :grin:

  12. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:10 pm

    I am loving this upgrade!

  13. Jade on February 9th, 2008 11:12 pm

    Biggles why don’t you ever link your signature? :?:

  14. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 11:16 pm

    Jade, Biggles doesn’t want to post his eBay ID on here, which is fair enough. Keeping one’s head down has a lot to be said for it ;-)

  15. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:17 pm

    I can put your link in it for £5 :grin:

  16. Chris Dawson on February 9th, 2008 11:19 pm

    PMSL - £5?? That’s cheap! Do you know how many readers we have? :razz:

  17. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:21 pm

    :wink: Sue.

    I covered it in a post on the tamebay forum.

  18. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 11:21 pm

    Pah. I’ll do it for £4.50 :razz:

  19. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:22 pm

    Chris, that’s £5 a post :D

  20. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:24 pm

    Hey, maybe tamebay should start an auction site section…

    <<<<<<< runs

  21. Sue Bailey on February 9th, 2008 11:26 pm

    Chris, reckon we can charge Biggles a couple of quid a comment if he’s getting paid for the advertising? :twisted: :grin:

  22. Jade on February 9th, 2008 11:28 pm

    lol @ biggles

    Of course you are allowed to keep your head down, but I wanna be nosey for goodness sake! :roll:

  23. Chris Dawson on February 9th, 2008 11:30 pm

    Biggles we have an auction section already! Don’t tell me you’ve not seen it? :shock:

  24. Chris Dawson on February 9th, 2008 11:31 pm

    Ha ha ha - yes lets charge him :-)

  25. Biggles on February 9th, 2008 11:44 pm

    :razz:

  26. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 8:41 am

    another question… does html work ok in the comment box? I know BBcode doesn’t?

  27. abs on February 10th, 2008 11:21 am

    :grin: it works :P:) great work guys!!!!

  28. Sue Bailey on February 10th, 2008 11:34 am

    @ Lynne: HTML, yes.

  29. Jade on February 10th, 2008 11:39 am

    test

    tamebay link

  30. Jade on February 10th, 2008 11:41 am

    ooh yesss html does work, now what can I do with that? :roll: No I’m not talking about spam linking

  31. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 5:34 pm

    I can make things bold and very big both of which are very handy sometimes…

  32. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 5:36 pm

    although I promise not to do it tooooo often…. :shock:

  33. Sue Bailey on February 10th, 2008 5:40 pm

    Now, now, Lynne, you know we prefer friendly pink fonts round here :razz:

  34. Chris Dawson on February 10th, 2008 5:48 pm

    Mountie green anyone? :razz:

  35. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 5:57 pm

    Oh Sue how pretty…. Chris, you know that colour isn’t allowed anymore….

  36. Sue Bailey on February 10th, 2008 6:01 pm

    Yeah, the green is allowed so long as it’s with the nice navy I put it with. It’s the pukey orange he’s not allowed to use any more :lol:

  37. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 6:02 pm

    LOL I think he misses the orange you know… :roll:

  38. Sue Bailey on February 10th, 2008 6:06 pm

    I’m sure he misses the orange, but I bet his buyers don’t :grin:

  39. Chris Dawson on February 10th, 2008 6:09 pm

    Hmmmm they were quality colours you know :lol:

  40. Josordoni on February 10th, 2008 6:25 pm

    Well I bet your buyers are glad your goods outquality your colours….

  41. Chris Dawson on February 10th, 2008 6:53 pm

    He he, funny thing is I didn’t change the colours for the benefit of buyers, the old yucky ones worked just fine for years - it was done for my own non-sales benefit :shock:

  42. Sue Bailey on February 10th, 2008 6:57 pm

    Nonsense, it was to stop me going on about it :lol:

    Edit: Oh, that *is* a non-sales benefit isn’t it :lol: :lol:

  43. Chris Dawson on February 10th, 2008 7:10 pm

    Ha ha ha :lol:

  44. Sue Bailey on February 13th, 2008 1:20 pm

    Just testing…

  45. Josordoni on February 13th, 2008 1:30 pm

    what are you testing Sue?

    (nosy as always…. :oops: )

  46. Sue Bailey on February 13th, 2008 1:33 pm

    Why the sidebar was broken :razz:

    But I think I can make you BBCode in the comments. :smile:

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