validate edits? i think you've misunderstood me. though it was edited twice, because i was the only one posting in the thread, the edits didn't show up with a little notation like "edited two times total" as you sometimes see on this forum. had someone posted after me, it would have. the forum treats it as the original post because it is still the post of record, so to speak.musher0 wrote:BTW, I never had to wait for another post to be written to validate edits. Strange...
Perhaps your return key is sticky, or something?
May I suggest that you ask Flash about this? He knows the regular behavior of the forum
software through and through, and he will certainly be able to confirm or rectify your impressions.
BFN.
isn't that how it works for you? if you respond to this post and no one else does, you can just continue to add or edit (like i do with some of those ridiculously long repo posts i've got) and those changes would show up with no notation, as if you were editing your original post in the reply box. were someone to post after you, perhaps referencing something now subject to change or omission, the edits would be recorded, which makes sense to me: if someone is discussing something that has changed, it would then be more obvious to any who were reading the thread.
but maybe i'm misunderstanding you--"validate edits" doesn't really mean anything to me as a phrase. you edit or you don't and you can see your changes or you can't. i can edit and see that i've done so the site's software appears to be working fine from where i sit.
whether or not this is normal behavior for most forums, i do not know. i only post in two forums really, and the other registers each edit with a notation once 90 seconds are up. i can remember hearing it wasn't always like that--because people were going out of their way to reedit stuff to make others look ridiculous, the admins changed the default behavior. this is a more benign crowd and the content is frequently more complicated; i always figured it was just a chance to get one's s. together. it also doesn't seem like particularly relevant information unless a subsequent post has been made.