Editing posts option is missing?

[Harlen]

Thanks Phil. I'll try to refine my PC version of your method. Still, my main problem is an interest in reworking my text. I too, now write everything elsewhere first, so I should be able to get it right before submitting. As you see here (1:20 AM), I often don't begin till late hours, since my days are too full. I am better in the AM with strong coffee.
At this point I regret adding to this post, and hope Greg ignores me.

[maverick]

Harlen wrote:

This isn't a huge deal... as Nancy said, as long as it's easily understandable... for instance, no matter how one spells Kawihah, Kawea, or Kaweah Basin-- it's still a fantastic place to be.

Unless you have an ingenious person who writes to you and points it out every time it's misspelled!

[erutan]

I assume the spam is from new accounts that post something innocuous and then edit later once the post has been approved / there's less eyeballs on it.

I had assumed this was for social reasons - it is annoying if someone rewrites their entire post, changing facts, etc after it's responded to. It's probably not a major impact on the more subjective forums, but it's not great for the more objective stuff like the fishing hole or xc passes. I was able to find out the CDFW names for some unnamed lakes, but instead of just being able to update my original fishing report had to copy and paste a large chunk of it as a comment later on. There's a pass entry I wanted to update, which is less usable as a comment tacked further down.

re: "Kawihah, Kawea, or Kaweah", this does impact search results, though search here is unwieldy to begin with.

I'm overly not familiar with PhPBB, but I'd have to imagine there's something like an "edit own posts" permission that could be disabled for the newly registered users group while keeping it available for people with over X posts.