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Effective immediately (or as soon as I finish changing the permissions) Limited Editing will be available to all members.

You will have five (5) minutes to edit your post after you submit. This is on a test basis, any abuse noted will cause us to return to the previous policies.


BobC
COL Staff

All of the sub-forums that the membership have posting privileges in should now allow editing. If I have missed any please let me know.

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Bob C

Hm. Seems like a good experiment, Bob.

Thank you for giving it a shot.

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Jeff Stevens

Jeff,

I'd like to keep it this way. We have lot's of good people here, the trolls from days gone by are long gone, I do not anticipate any problems.


I should also point out that we were able to do this now because the software timer is now working, one of the many fixed recently incorporated.

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Bob C

This is great! Even though I preview before I post sometimes I will see a spelling mistake or word ommission after I post and then it's too late to correct it. So I appreciate this feature!

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Mary-Love

Jesus, I trust in You.

Thank you very much, Bob!

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-Lou (Louis)

ORA et LABORA
Totus Tuus
Cacciatore/Fungaiolo

Thank you!

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Yours in Christ,

Joe

Thank you, thank you. No matter how much preview I do, too often I find I still drop a word or make some other mistake I can see only after the post is sumitted!

John

I THINK you cannot edit a post in a thread started by a moderator. Is this by design, Bob?

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Jeff Stevens

Jeff,

There are some places that you do not have permissions to edit, The staff sections which you cannot access anyway, and all the libraries, the forum rules. Aside from that you should have the ability to edit.

As far as started by a staff member I have no idea, perhaps an announcement or sticky no. I'll play with it and see if I can figure it out.

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Bob C

Jeff,

It appears that you can edit a post in a normal thread started by a staff member, but cannot edit a post in a thread that is marked higher then a normal post, this must be by design, but when I have some time I'll look into it further

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Bob C

Bob,

Serious question.

Immediately after posting here:
viewtopic.php?f=217&t=57451

I was unable to edit my post. I realized I should change "confession" to "sacrament of penance".

I don't see an elevation or it being in an unusually defined forum. Any idea why that might be?

I'm just curious. It's not a priority.

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Jeff Stevens

Seems I missed that sub forum, I have now changed the permissions

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Bob C

I'm posting just so you know, (not that it's mandatory) but it looks like I can't edit my posts in this forum. viewtopic.php?f=105&t=42539&p=750127#p750127

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Yours in Christ,

Joe

Nice addition... thanks!!!!

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Larry

When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart, Because I bore your name, O LORD.

-- Jeremiah 15:16

This is working out well for me. I get in too much of a rush sometimes and hit the submit button before checking my mistakes.

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God bless,
Perry
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I have not figured out how to edit my post within five minutes after it was posted. Can someone explain to me how to do that?

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Jesus tells us:

John 3:14 "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

John 11:25 "Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Arthur Biele

Button shows up in the bottom right, right next to "Quote", on your own posts.

If you act quick, you can test the one you just posted!

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Jeff Stevens

Well done, sir!

Wish I knew how to do that

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-Lou (Louis)

ORA et LABORA
Totus Tuus
Cacciatore/Fungaiolo

Thank you. You and anyone else who finds it helpful is welcome to use it.


It's quite simple.

Take a screenshot of your window. Use Alt-PrintScreen on your keyboard.
Open Microsoft Paint (Start Run Accessories).
Paste the screenshot in (Ctrl-V or just go to the Edit menu, then paste)
Select the oval/circle tool. Select red color. Lay it over the button. Ctrl-Z to undo if you get it wrong.
Select the line tool. Draw a line to the oval. Draw another line next to it at a 45 degree angle. Draw another line on the other side at a 45 degree angle.
Save it.
Upload to photobucket or your own web site.

Then link to it.

I've been doing this a long time. Maybe simple things come easy.

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Jeff Stevens

You're right it is, and I would never have thought of it. Thanks.

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Bob C

Very cool. Thanks

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-Lou (Louis)

ORA et LABORA
Totus Tuus
Cacciatore/Fungaiolo

Thanks!

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Yours in Christ,

Joe

The only time I ever saw an edit button in the lower right hand part of my post has been my above message in this thread. It did not appear in any of my recent posts including today's posting in Speculation/Junk Science topic: Global Warming.

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Jesus tells us:

John 3:14 "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

John 11:25 "Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Arthur Biele

Bob,

Just to let you know....

In the Speculation/Junk Science forum there isn't an 'edit post' button.

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Yours in Christ,

Joe

Bob,
Twice since this new editing has been available I have wanted to completely delete posts which, after two minutes, I realized were inappropriate. In the Introductions and in the Prayer Requests. Was it because editing is not allowed in these forums or because deleting an entire post is not allowed? (I have managed to successfully edit a post; it was probably in Chew and Chat.)

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

Grace,

You do not have the ability to delete a post.

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Bob C

I hope the temporary edit remains.

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Rohrich

"To one who has faith, no explanation is
necessary. To one without faith, no
explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas

So far, so good!

(I know that because I just used it on this post!)

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

I noticed that, too.

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Rebecca

But what you CAN probably do is to delete all the former text and replace it with something else - like

"Never mind." or "Deleted."
or something equally silly.

Frankly, I've seen you several times - Grace - apologize for posts that I've really gotten a lot out of. SO QUIT IT!!!

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Laura
Soli Deo Gloria
http://lauralowder.wordpress.com

"Since I cannot altogether live the life I would wish for, I must make my actual life better and more fruitful for God and for the souls who have been entrusted to me." Elisabeth Leseur, October 2, 1905

Bob and the rest of the staff -
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for this feature!!!

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Laura
Soli Deo Gloria
http://lauralowder.wordpress.com

"Since I cannot altogether live the life I would wish for, I must make my actual life better and more fruitful for God and for the souls who have been entrusted to me." Elisabeth Leseur, October 2, 1905

Maybe there is no point in editing junk. Then it just becomes edited junk.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

Thank you.

There have been several times on these forums when I have posted and only realized afterward that I forgot a word or two or stated something awkwardly.

I appreciate it.

EDIT: Just tested it...nice.

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Corey
"I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me." - St. Sir Thomas More

LOL, David!

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Rebecca

I recall someone once telling that he had just purchased a book of random numbers. His wife couldn't understand why it came with an errata sheet.

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- Joe Kelley

Death is only a shadow across the path to Heaven.

Hopefully the edit function will be used more wisely and change it from junk to something worthwhile. I do understand your point though. I know I have used this function already, and whether wisely or not would be for the reader to discern.

I thought earlier this function was removed, but it appears that it is not available in all areas.

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Rohrich

"To one who has faith, no explanation is
necessary. To one without faith, no
explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas

I should have read this thread before I write my first post! LOL I will know better next time.

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Isabel Garcia

"To be clear-headed rather than confused; lucid rather than obscure; rational rather than otherwise; and to be neither more, nor less, sure of things than is justifiable by argument or evidence. Surely that is worth trying for." Sir Geoffrey Warmock

LOL! Isabel, if I could tell you how that resonates with me!!!!

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Larry

When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart, Because I bore your name, O LORD.

-- Jeremiah 15:16

I double-posted and tried to delete one, but the computer kept telling me to edit my second post, since it "contains too few characters."

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Pax et bonum,
Marie

JMJ

This will be very good for me.

Thank you.

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Daniel

"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." -- Luke 12:51