Honesty

[Lufto]

I´ve recently experienced a thing that to me was sad.

Everyone logged in (all members, from Newbie to Guru and Moderator) has the opportunity to change and EDIT whatever they have written.

This is potentially dangerous.

Everyone should really CONSIDER what they chose to change ( or chose to remove) , so it could NOT IN ANY WAY, change the way, or meaning
of facts that have been pubacly discussed or meant in a thread.

Regards
/Lufto

[Janus0070]

It would be equally dangerous not to edit occasional mistakes in posts concerning serious and potentially hardware damaging matters.

[Sonett7]

The biggest danger from my point of view is if one of the real guru's here suddenly decides to erase all the good information in their posts here. I've seen it happen on another forum where one person in anger stayed up all night and erased all his posts...

What we are doing here is really depending on that all the information here is available since this is my "dictionary".

[SaabNoob]

I can see what you're saying, but unfortunately freedom of speech means you or i have little control over what anyone posts or doesn't post. The idea of a forum is to provide a place for an amalgamation of ideas and thoughts and it's up to the individual as to what or how much they contribute. The only saving grace is that once an idea is out there it's taken in by more than just the OP and can be re-integrated by other posters if the OP 'gets the hump' and edits all his input.

As some bright spark once said "you can't un-invent the wheel". Or was it the atom bomb? I forget.

I personally have edited many of my posts after i've re-read them and found they don't actually make the point i intended.

[mackan]

I personally have edited many of my posts after i've re-read them and found they don't actually make the point i intended.

Or delete a post after the forum has made you belive you haven't posted when you actually have...3 times

[rawill]

Yes to the above post - I have done this.

I have also been wrong and found that I needed to change a post so I didn't give wrong advice or point someone in the wrong direction.

That is my fault, for posting about stuff I did not have enough knowledge about.

[Lufto]

It would be equally dangerous not to edit occasional mistakes in posts concerning serious and potentially hardware damaging matters.

Janus: You should not be able to alter your original post. (That´s the real deal of what i meant...)
Once again: You should be able to make a new post or applying additional text behind the original, NOT ALTERING IT...
And this is the "real deal" of what i meant.
Today you can alter everything, i don´t like when everybody can alter the "original" text.
In my case Mackan altered his.

/Lufto