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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | Apr 3 2012, 05:11 PM Post #1 |
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A question of no consequence, but if I look at my posting and chose to edit out the mistakes for instance, whilst I am doing that, does the original disappear from everybody's screen? Just wondered.....
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| Deleted User | Apr 3 2012, 05:23 PM Post #2 |
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Editing a message is good for grammar/spelling mistakes
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | Apr 3 2012, 06:08 PM Post #3 |
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It's certainly a useful way of saving face when you realise the blindingly obvious mistake you have just made; but that does not answer my original question. Maybe a scientific trial is called for..... |
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 3 2012, 06:32 PM Post #4 |
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Perhaps you should try using it, then.
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| chris crossing | Apr 3 2012, 08:51 PM Post #5 |
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I'm always making smelling pisstakes! (Ronnie Barker circa 1977) |
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| Caro | Apr 3 2012, 09:05 PM Post #6 |
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I can't answer that, Hugh - we'd need to be looking at the post and noticing it either changed while we watched it or taken away while you were changing it. It sometimes bothers me when I have made some silly mistake (usually doing what is known here as 'doing a Norm' - not realising there is another page of posts) and go to change it immediately that everyone will have seen and be laughing at me. Or at least smiling gently. So silly to worry about such trivia. |
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | Apr 3 2012, 09:16 PM Post #7 |
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I worry similarly if I have 'done a Norm', so you are not alone Caro. It's worse on (say) the Guardian newspaper Comment pages, because there is no editing facility. Once it's posted-----it's posted. And such pages can become pretty malevolent and vindictive so a mistake even of grammar is an open floodgate for the pedants to flow in, and they can stab the knife in pretty deep! |
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| Caro | Apr 3 2012, 09:40 PM Post #8 |
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Yes, it amazes me how nasty people are in the comments below articles, even when there is some moderation and actually swearing isn't allowed. I must have led a very sheltered life, since nobody in reality ever speaks to me like that (nor do they often in cyberspace, since I don't invite it much). I quite like to listen to things on youtube but the comments underneath, if someone prefers another version or makes any comment really, can lead to the most abusive unpleasant foul language. It stuns me. I must be easily shocked. It's not the language so much, it's the tone underneath the language that I don't understand. |
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| Hugh Mosby-Joaquin | Apr 4 2012, 01:28 PM Post #9 |
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It appears to me that the worst abuse is that which I see on the Internet Movie Data Base, and mostly from Americans, although not exclusively. You obly have to state that you thought a film was rather good, and you are liable to get a stream of abuse telling you that 'you know nothing' , and things like "Well, you haven't seen so-and-so movie you lunkhead, 'cos if you had you would't be spouting all that drivel!!! Sheesh!!! Get a life!!!!!" and so on. The anonimity of the internet is a good cover for abuse and idiocy and just plain nutcases. We used to see it here a bit on the old BBC messageboards, did we not?.... Edited by Hugh Mosby-Joaquin, Apr 4 2012, 01:29 PM.
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| David Crosbie | Apr 4 2012, 10:31 PM Post #10 |
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This is a post that I propose to edit. I am currently editing the post. I propose to open the thread in another tab. Edited by David Crosbie, Apr 4 2012, 10:37 PM.
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| David Crosbie | Apr 4 2012, 10:39 PM Post #11 |
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I did that with the edit box still open. What I saw was the existing version. So, I presume somebody looking on a different computer would see the same. |
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