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Editing PMs
« on February 8th, 2013, 07:16 PM »
So, this came up in recent conversation: the ability to edit PMs.

You can edit posts, should you be able to edit PMs that you yourself have sent?

Putting aside the small issue relating to email notifications, is this something that you would ever find useful? Concerns?

I can see the use of editing a PM for 10 minutes or so before actually sending in case you want to make last minute typo fixes or whatever.

Thoughts?
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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #1, on February 8th, 2013, 07:25 PM »
Not really, I think a new PM saying hey I made a mistake I meant ???? is simple enough. I tend to reply to PM's right away so unless it was edited before I saw it I may never realize it got edited as I generally do not want email notification of PMs mainly because I hardly ever actually check my email.
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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #2, on February 9th, 2013, 12:46 AM »Last edited on February 9th, 2013, 07:10 PM
If the PM is still unread, you can still edit it. If not, you cannot edit.
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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #3, on February 9th, 2013, 06:19 AM »
Quote from Dismal Shadow on February 9th, 2013, 12:46 AM
If the email is still unread, you can still edit it. If not, you cannot edit.
That'll be a relativve pain to track. And I'm also against this, it's a PM, if in doubt one can always clarify in a follow up PM.
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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #4, on February 9th, 2013, 06:21 AM »
PMs being read is implicitly tracked even in SMF. The problem is, we introduced 'mark PMs unread' :D

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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #5, on February 9th, 2013, 06:22 AM »
Quote from Arantor on February 9th, 2013, 06:21 AM
PMs being read is implicitly tracked even in SMF. The problem is, we introduced 'mark PMs unread' :D
From what I could gather, he meant if the e-mail notification from PM is unread then it should be editable.

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Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #6, on February 9th, 2013, 06:25 AM »
Yeah, there's no way to know that. Even if SMF sent read-receipts (which it doesn't), it doesn't have any way to track them and not all clients even send receipts anyway.
Re: Editing PMs
« Reply #7, on February 9th, 2013, 11:33 AM »
If this feature delays the sending of the PM quite some time (minutes),  I'm against it because it would kill a conversation.

Personally I always preview a PM, or message  before posting. Somehow I find it easier to find misstakes that way.
This made my come up with a possible alternative, Having a preview popping up, or showing, on hitting the Post button and having to confirm to post what you see by clicking the Post button a second time , or better a second Post button. This way there won't be a real delay (accept long posts), but there is the change that people actually read what they wrote and make necessary alterations.
It could be considered nagging and I'm not sure it isn't already possible with admin options.
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