Re: Call for moderators (new and old)
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:43 am
I can't disagree with what you said. It's just that feeds aren't forever. Most posts wash out of people's feeds within a week. The forum posts are kinda permanent so it concerns me more that those posts say exactly what we meant to say. There have been several threads resurrected recently that were a year or two old. If someone misspoke a year or two ago, it might come back up in an old thread and make for uncomfortable feelings and/or discussions because the original conversation would be out of context.bigato wrote:People, when writing here keep in mind that the moment you push the submit button your content instantly appears in hundreds or thousands of feed readers. Five or ten minutes after, it will be there for almost every subscriber. Also not too long after, a good percentage of people who don't subscribe to the RSS will have read it too. All these thousands of people won't check back after that to see if you changed your post. So, please think before you post because there is no going back. That's why you have both a preview button and also the capability to save drafts.
You don't go back in time editing what you said in real life and this is more like a discussion. You are not writing a book. If you changed your mind, write another post correcting yourself if necessary. This way readers will see it and we will keep some coherence in the topics. This is a forum, not a wiki.
Not trying to make a big deal out of it. Whatever you decide is fine