Granting permission to edit your own posts.
 

Question to all OCC Staff And Moderators:

Why can't members that "obey all the rules, make valuable contributions to this forum, don't get into trouble with moderators" be granted special privileges like editing their own posts. I realise that allowing people to edit their own posts leaves it open to abuse. I think this could be achievable with input from moderators. An example would be where a moderator would say "This user makes good posts day in, day out, they've never been any trouble and it's safe to asume they could edit or update their own posts without going through a mod". This could free up some of the moderators time. Of course updated posts would still have to be reviewed. Moderators would be familiar with the users that post in their sections, and they would know the good posters from the bad posters that want to spam us into oblivian.

Can Moderators please post your thoughts and feedback.

Thanks for your time,
EvilExtreme

Personally, I think it would create more headaches for the moderators. If users were able to edit their own posts (after the 15 minute window that already exists) it would open us up to situations where a post is completely changed and the continuity of the thread could be broken. For example, if none of the responses made sense after an earlier post was edited. Worse yet, when a moderator reads a thread they know all the posts are okay up to that point in time. If earlier post in a thread have been edited, there would be no way a moderator could be sure the thread is okay without rereading the entire thread. Considering some threads here are well over 100 pages, that would not be reasonable to expect from our moderators.

On the flip side, our moderators aren't so overworked that they cannot edit or delete posts when users ask us. This has never been a problem and we always honor our member's requests to edit or delete their own posts. The quickest way to make such a request is to report the post to the moderators.

Thanks,
Alex