# Editing old posts
**URL:** https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [July 10, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893 "2018-07-10T11:38:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/1 "2018-07-10T11:38:22Z")
Could one of the admins here set “post edit time limit” to 0 to allow us to edit/correct older posts?
We can still delete old posts, but that is a bit harsh.
Or is it a deliberate choice that all of our spelling errors and misinformed statements be preserved for eternity? 😉
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/2 "2018-07-10T11:41:08Z")
If that were possible I would replace the majority of my posts with:
[post withdrawn will be deleted within 24 hours unless flagged]
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/3 "2018-07-10T11:41:47Z")
> [@Sushi](#):
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> Or is is a deliberate choice that all of our spelling errors and misinformed statements be preserved for eternity? 😉
This. Discobot and the developers would like to drive us slightly mad. Just think about the annoying messages that we shouldn’t talk too much to each other …
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/4 "2018-07-10T11:43:51Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> Just think about the annoying messages that we shouldn’t talk too much to each other …
Just imagine a place built for communication that actually encourages you to communicate!
MOST UNORTHODOX!!! 🧐
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/5 "2018-07-10T11:44:41Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> MOST UNORTHODOX!!! 🧐
Indeed!
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### Author:  [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/6 "2018-07-10T11:44:54Z")
I don’t think the time limit is a bad thing. Then we don’t have the option to ovethink things and think, “what if everyone remembers that typo I made six months ago?!” 😉
Also, I think anyone mentioned in an edited post gets a new notification. And it might bring the post to the top of the forum as well. Is that correct?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/7 "2018-07-10T11:46:01Z")
> [@Sushi](#):
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> Could one of the admins here set “post edit time limit” to 0
I don’t like it when people remove or add information in months/year old posts.
> [@Sushi](#):
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> Or is is a deliberate choice that all of our spelling errors and misinformed statements be preserved for eternity?
Yep, sounds fine to me.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/8 "2018-07-10T11:46:15Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#):
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> Also, I think anyone mentioned in an edited post gets a new notification.
Yes, and that’s why the poster would think twice about changing his post. 🙂
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/9 "2018-07-10T11:52:00Z")
Sometimes it is hard enough to read posts that keep getting changed as soon as they are published. Something I´m not entirely innocent of myself but I´m especially looking in the direction of @Gffp here…😜
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### Author:  [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/10 "2018-07-10T11:58:44Z")
🤣 If I has to writ tinks as thei came ot of mi fingers at first attempt, they wuld be so iasy to undersand…
As soon as I recognize a typo, an error or a incorrect information, I usually correct it.
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### Author:  [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/11 "2018-07-10T12:00:23Z")
But what about blurring out a spoiler you didn’t blur out?
Or correcting a real error that makes you look stoopid. (not just a typo)?
I agree the use of it should be very limited, but I came across a few old posts of mine (looking for something else) that I would like to change.
Otherwise I will remove them.
9/10 of my posts contain edits for stuff I forgot and/or the obvious typo corrections within 2 minutes of original posting.
> [@Gffp](#):
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> they wuld be so iasy to undersand…
veryr eaiy to sme
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/13 "2018-07-10T12:46:25Z")
> [@Sushi](#):
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> But what about blurring out a spoiler you didn’t blur out?
> Or correcting a real error that makes you look stoopid. (not just a typo)?
If it’s really a serious issue then delete the post and make a new one.
Stop changing history. Make a better future instead.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/14 "2018-07-10T12:49:56Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Stop changing history. Make a better future instead.
So what do you want me to do with Baby Hitler now?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/15 "2018-07-10T12:50:22Z")
With this haircut? We are all doomed.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/16 "2018-07-10T12:52:34Z")
So in order to make a better future…kill all babies with bad haircuts to prevent potentional mass murder?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/17 "2018-07-10T12:55:36Z")
Sounds like a plan.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/18 "2018-07-10T12:58:29Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Sounds like a plan.
👍
👶🔫 😏
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/19 "2018-07-10T13:52:32Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> So what do you want me to do with Baby Hitler now?
If he were born nowadays, someone (lower case) could teach him not to play with gas. It’s dangerous.
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### Author:  [@uriel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/uriel)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/20 "2018-07-10T13:54:29Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> I don’t like it when people remove or add information in months/year old posts.
☝☝☝
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/editing-old-posts/2893/21 "2018-07-10T14:01:00Z")
I can see Kate replying right now and I bet you she´s gonna say something about fixing typos…
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