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Editing Posts

godtabh · 2010-09-09 10:25:49

I want to edit a post from the 31/09 Doesnt appear that I can. Is there a time limit on editing posts?

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09-09-2010 11:25am

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godtabh

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I want to edit a post from the 31/09

Doesnt appear that I can. Is there a time limit on editing posts?

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#2 09-09-2010 1:20pm
Tom Dunne

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There is.

There reason being, spammers used to come in and make a fairly innocuous comment then sneakily nip back at a later date to insert an advertisement or spam link.

You can ask the moderator of the forum in question to edit it for you.

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#3 09-09-2010 2:14pm
godtabh

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Thanks for the reply.

I've pm'd one of the mods

What's the time limit?

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#4 09-09-2010 6:29pm
Zaph

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The time limit is 48 hours

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