I know this has been covered before but I just find that the inability to edit posts on EO is really limiting my enthusiasm in answering posts, and while some may say that is a good thing, going by the dwindling number or daily posts others possibly agree.
It is very frustrating that I can't correct my posts with a simple edit. I would rather not post and not help someone most of the time now.
As a customer, I am appealing to EO to reconsider the policy, it is a normal
forum function that works on every
forum I use, except this one which is the only one I pay for.
I know that there are alternatives but none are really user friendly.
1)Use external spell
check - Browsers like Edge and Firefox are moving away from add ons because of the security risk. Their native spell
check doesn't work very
well with EO.
2)Sent a PM to EO to fix typos - yeah right. That'll happen
3)Live with posts that are not what you meant to say.
4)Open word or similar, type a post ( or edit ) in there then copy to EO - Seriously???
The main argument against editing is that people can change their post after other comments are made. However.
a)Every other
forum I know gets around this by noting that an edit has occurred, with a time stamp. This works for them.
b)If that isn't enough for EO, then a history could be made available Wikipedia style so all changed can be viewed.
I know some people like the fact that it can't be edited and most don't ( going by similar previous threads)
I feel as a paid
forum EO has to keep competitive ( look at the number of posts per day compared to 3 - 4 years ago. The Landcruiser
forum has 50 - 100 times as many posts per day on one model fo car as a comparison).
EO please stay relavant. The site is so rich and the foum is the front door to much of the content.
Is it getting harder and harder to cough up an annual fee for an aging system.
Pleeeeeeeze
I do love this site and was in 2 minds about posting this, but I feel that it needs to be said ( again).
Note this post probably has typos, my Edge browser has a spell
check that doesn't work with EO very
well and I can't change it.