After I post to the OGS forums, I’m accustomed to being able to edit that post by hitting the little pencil icon highlighted above. It’s a very useful and handy feature.
I just went back to a thread I posted last January, and tried to edit it - and the little pencil icon was gone:
Is this a site feature that times-out after a certain interval? or after a fixed number of edits for that page?
This is with regards to the 19x19 teaching series, and I was hoping to use the 1st article in the series as an index for all the other articles - i.e. something I would continue to update as I went along.
Is this a possibility? Or should I explore other options?
Hmmm., well, I guess I’m going to have to change my plan and create the index in the latest article in the series, rather than the 1st article.
I think trying to make that huge 19x19 article into a wiki could end up messy if everyone goes in there and starts editing, so I’ll figure out another way that doesn’t involve me bugging the mods for edits every few weeks or so.
I think there might also be a time limit on when you can remove likes. I’ve tried to remove my like from posts I made a year or two, and I get a stop-sign cursor on mouse-over.
It hasn’t been abused yet. Most trolls aren’t that dedicated, it takes a while to get regular.
It helps when experienced users of the forum can adjust a title to more accurately reflect the poster’s intent.
Further, mods can see edit history and remove regular status if needed.