Anyone reading my posts today will possibly find them 'jumbled'!

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Hi Guys & Girls,

Please take no notice of my posts today, I'm having a terrible day with pain and falling asleep during answering messages, the Tramadol side-effects attacking me again - hopefully, I will be off these soon and back to what I can call 'normalish'. Normal, is totally impossible!

I look back at some messages and think what the 'heck' was I thinking, they make no sense at all to me, let alone anyone else.

That is one thing I do miss on this forum is an "EDIT" button, most forums have them or a timed "EDIT" on your last post. I cannot understand why something with a good function is not available on here - people make mistakes many times, and on a website like this dealing with patients would it not be more sensible to have one, instead of adding futher posts to explain the problem with previous post.

Perhaps it's me having an off-day, but I would of thought it would be a logical step in the future maybe. I cannot see any harm why a function like this is missing.

Perhaps, a moderator could explain why - when you have spasms in your hands, arms, etc it is quite easy to mis-type words.

Am I the only one that thinks like this?

Regards,

Les.

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Been asked for over and over - claimed at one point it was too complicated I believe. This is the only site I have to do with that doesn't have an "edit" button though.

If there is anything particularly bad you can ask the moderator to delete it for , just click on Report and tell them what you want them to do.

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Oh, I didn't even know that! "Too Complex" - they have jQuery and AJAX already, adding a pull from the database to allow editing then reposting is not a difficult job!

AJAX is already used to post a message.

Suppose we'll have to live without it, can't miss what we never had in the first place I guess.

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Depends whether you want to do it I suspect - you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time...

I rarely like new improved versions of anything! Not just because I'm getting older...

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You have my sympathy Les. I had a wretched period some decades ago. At its worst I could manage about 30 minutes of clear thinking first thing in the morning and then rubbish. And I felt rubbish too. It was very unpleasant.

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Sending you some love xx

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Many thanks Les. There is no limit to the amount of love I can soak up. I do hope Wednesday will be a better day fir you. George

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Hi Les/Eileen,

See http://patient.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/401404-how-do-i-delete-or-edit-my-posts

I have spoken to the lead developer today and mentioned that an edit facility is the main complaint/suggestion from users so this will be looked into again in the New Year.

As Eileen said, if any post needs editing just get in touch and I can edit if required. 

Regards,

Alan

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I've just looked at the link - I really can't see why they think it is a problem. The other forums I use have an edit facility for your own post otherwise only an assigned moderator can do it. I can see where even an "own delete" could be abused but an edit?

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This is in cases if there wasn't a timed edit, ie users could edit their own posts however old they were which is what some users have asked for. For example if an argument broke out users could go back and edit their comments to remove contentious comments etc to stop any action against them and in reverse spammers/advertisers editing already posted comments to add things. This is why they are going to look at the timed option which is what Les mentioned in the first post.

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Ah - I see. Obviously I'm too honest to think of that!

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Hi Alan,

That would be good, if only 60 or 120 seconds was added to the Edit, at least I could read my long posts and EDIT if necessary. I didn't mean editing other peoples posts, that would open the forum up to all sorts of problems.

At least I could correct my posts within a few mnutes instead of adding more text in a reply to myself, like it is now!

While, I have your attention, this maybe a stupid thing to ask but I suffer from spasms when trying to open the inline box further down, when writing posts, the area where you have the CKE Resizer with a Span of 16 and then a border on the left of 10 and a top of 10, which leaves a box of 6 x 6 for the Resizer button, which I find difficult to hover over and make the reply box longer. Some people may not know what I am referring to, but it would be beneficial to the users on the whole. I know the wrapper is fixed which is fine, but replying can be a nightmare.

I look forward to your reply.

Regards,

Les.

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Thanks Alan xxx

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Hi Les,

I didn't mean editing other peoples posts, that would open the forum up to all sorts of problems.

I didn't mean this either - I can't even begin to think of the problems that would cause. 

Re the reply box - I will pass this on to ask if they can make the reply box larger or an easier/more obvious way to expand.

Regards,

Alan

 

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Always read my ramblings before posting them, Spelling and grammatical mistakes should be overlooked (I'm an engineer, not a writer). Should  my twitterings be liable to cause offence then I shouln't post them in the first place, retrospective editing shouln't be necessary. 

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. . . but not all of us are good at seeing what we have actually written as against what we intended to write. Sadly I find all too often that as soon as I have posted my checked and "perfect" text I see the mistakes I have missed. It seems the reformatting has something to do with it - changes my perception perhaps. 

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Well, Steve that is a good point - my spelling and grammar over the years as become progressively worse. But then again, I used to use the built-in spell checker, for some reason that disappeared from Firefox, and I don't touch I.E ever. These days its a case of trying to control my hands from spasming, which look like dam errors.

The stupid part is reading it back after I hit "Reply" button - and see all my errors! I suppose you could copy and paste into word or any spell checker, correct them all then copy and paste back. The problem with Word is it double carriages after paragraphs, so you end up with loads of white-space.

I hate involuntary movements, feels like someone else is controlling me! hmmmm...

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Change your paragraph set up for Word - no need to have spaces after paragraphs at all. 

But honestly Les - if it isn't offensive I couldn't care a toss! No one is perfect and you have a good reason for your typos - I don't, other than carelessness.

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Well said Eileen. And besides, if we are on this forum we are stressed and that does not help our accuracy or grammar.  It does however demand our forbearance in large measure.

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I guess it all goes back to when I was taught at school, and English. A few examples are:

1. I was taught to place 2 spaces after using a full-stop and starting a new sentence.

2. I was also taught to use paragraphs.

3. I was also taught to use bullets, lists, indents, etc.

But the internet changed a majority of it. I never use 2 spaces after a full-stop only 1 now. Paragraphs I still tend to use, but it does cause problems if you try and copy and paste from Word into this forum, but that's down to the storage type in the database.

I still use formatting of larger fonts for headings or to point something out, if a forum allows it, but that's only on the odd occassion.

But Eileen, on here we don't have spellcheckers or grammar checkers, some words I come out with to me sound right, then after I posted it I think, oops that was totally wrong. lol I have a problem, like many others on here that seems to go off the subject matter, sounds silly I know - it is again, not until I posted it I realize the mess.

I may have had good grades at school, but English language has changed so much, during the various decades. I remember a full sstop or comma wrong was a slap across your hand with a ruler! Well, I'm 51 today, and in another 50 years I expect English would have changed again. I don't find very much offensive unless it was aimed directly a person which does happen, but seems rare on these forums.

There that's how I feel, I don't pick on people either for spelling or grammar mistakes - as long as I read it, I don't care. 

Regards,

Les.