GoSeigen wrote:AWOL wrote: I am not arguing for the site to be customized to suit an edge case but I would appreciate greater latitude in edit time as I like to avoid comments from the minority that feel obliged to point out my errors often instructing me with things like "tenses are important" which doesn't benefit me as much as they think as I know what I should have written, and meant to, but perhaps it makes them feel better.
There is no limit to edit time. Just use the "Preview" button. That creates a preview of the post in the same format as it will appear when submitted, and there is no timeout for doing whatever edits you want to. You can then click "Preview" again (and again, unlimited times) and see the result of your changes. A time limit only arises when you have clicked the "Submit" button and the post goes live onto the site.
Undeniably true. And if I were submitting a thesis for a doctorate or an article for wide publication, then I would spend a considerable amount of time ensuring that it was as perfect as it could be prior to submitting.
But this is a glorified internet chat site. And when you consider the utter gibberish that is exchanged on Twitter, Facebook etc., then even a prematurely unedited post here is light years ahead of the average social media post that is littered with emojis, acronyms and spelling errors.
So I have some sympathy for AWOL, particularly when he talks about spelling nazis and the pedant police (my words, not his, but sympatico). Maybe we should drop impeccably high standards for spelling and grammar, as long as we can understand the point someone is making? Because the younger generation certainly do not have a lot of time for it with their text-speak and the rest.
But I have sorted out broken quotes that occasionally result in words being incorrectly attributed to the wrong writer.
