Good change, well done. You suck, I hate you all!

Boo.

Think about it as having 20/20 foresight and that should turn your frown upside-down. (Better to protect comments than to wait for someone to go nuts and permanently erase Sift content.)

dact and redact sat on a wall.

i want more history on this snakeplissken ordeal. I've heard the reference multiple times...can somebody update little ol' me?

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^Snakeplissken cannot be explained, only lived. Peace be upon him.

When we are worthy, he will return.

Only the original cabal know of Snakeplissken's ascent.

I don't know how I feel about this.

I can't see the point of this...So no more [edits] or [updates] because some guy named after a Kurt Russell character did something wrong? Boo, I say.

I can't say I feel strongly either way, but on balance, I think it's probably a bad idea. Many comments are edited due to new information, correcting erroneous information, or redacting personal information, among other things. I get what you're saying about foresight, but I think holding users to a binding policy like that may cause more problems than it will solve. Which begs the question - has there been a rash of edited comments recently that has caused problems? Why do this now?

Also, this may be very confusing for new users down the road, who don't see this post, and naturally assume that the 'edit' functionality is not time restricted.

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I hate to invoke the "most sites" defense (if mosts sites jumped off a cliff ...) but most sites don't allow for eternal retroactive comment editing - and there are valid reasons for this.

For one, it can mess up the flow of a thread that others have responded to down-stream and sew confusion all around.

Is it unreasonable to require, that we as members, commit to our verbage at some point?

I say allow edits after the first hour, but content can only be striken through, not erased. Of course, new content can be added. I'm not sure how this would be implemented.

This is a good change. You need to maintain the integrity and logical flow of the comments as Dag has mentioned.

I wonder how it would effect users like Pinky who share personal information one night and then realize that they shared too much the next day?

I remember dealing with snake plissken several times in one of our many sift arguments but i dont know what ordeal they are refering too.

Every one should go on Comment Strike!

Why? I dont know...

Would allowing 24 hours be too long? I like to sober up and then correnct my splelling.

>> ^Farhad2000:
I wonder how it would effect users like Pinky who share personal information one night and then realize that they shared too much the next day?


In such extreme circumstances, one could just ask an admin to modify their comment for them.

Sifters, who post under the influence, will have to be more careful.

Fear being the mind-killer, memories of plissken, memories of a once-mediocre set of parameters, ending with pathetic crescendo, of we have to rob, steal, beg, or fuck art in it's ass, to assure that we keep the Jew's gold......

Fucking Jews, fucking Nazis.....Now that'd make a great snuff film......

Pathetic
Weak
Twisted
and Fucked.......

I feel schmawy has a good point here. Why set the limit at 1 hour, instead of 12 or 24 hours?

*sticky this. I want to hear what people think of this.

Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by rasch187.

I regret this, then edited it within 24 hours, but after this I couldn't edit it when I regret that too.

Crap.

Let it live forever on the intarnets and provoke more undue negative emotions.

Edit: You should have seen what I had written before I edited this comment.

>> ^dotdude:
Sifters, who post under the influence, will have to be more careful.


man, I'm always under the influence
but, srsly, the snake plissken story must be told now that you gave us a taste of it - come on, oldtimers, we want a story!!

Okay- The community has spoken. We told SiftBot what you guys said. He grumbled a little and told me to leave him alone, but I think we can convince him to allow comment editing for 24 hours after submission.

*set24hourcommentedit

Setting comment edit time to 24 hours - set24hourcommentedit requested by lucky760 after insistence by my meat farm.

Will sifty be set up to redact harsh words in case I drunk-comment and wake up 24 hours later in a regretful stupor?

Huzzah! Drinks, for allll my frieeeeeeends!

Oh and *quality management as always.

Awarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by schmawy.

I still don't like it.

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^grumpy smurf

>> ^siftbot:
Setting comment edit time to 24 hours - set24hourcommentedit requested by lucky760 after insistence by my meat farm.

your mother was a potato peeler...

Maybe y'all could add a feature like Google did where you have to answer a few math questions to prove you're sober before you can send an email. It's call "Mail Goggles."

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*unsticky

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*sticky
fuck that shit

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S'goddamn lame, excuse, for a major fuck-up......

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Hey Choggie- if you have something constructive to add (and a reason for restickying this) please feel free speak up.

Speaking-
This is not how it has always been-0why lose a feature that affords access to the contributor-not so much the editing feature-the goddamn history of our entire trek!!

I smell a whole lotta shit here, and its not mine.....

unless, I could be a dumbass......how doooo we check everything we've ever said....Go find sifts???

Oh wait....you're not talking to me dag, you are talking at me.....don't play that shit-

doubleplus*unsticky

Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by choggie.

dinna think you had anything to say but what you did dag, and you screamed it loud and fucking clear......
*sticky little flypaper, wonder what it tastes like-mmmmmmmm....cold.
Poison......
Trying to escape, can't move.....fuck!

This Stable sucks, pasture looks green, perhaps a walk...

Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by choggie.

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Choggie - I would call this "attention seeking behaviour" - while it may be fun to watch from the sidelines this kind of stuff hurts the sift. Please chill out or sleep it off - whichever remedy applies best. Thanks

*unsticky

Invocations (unsticky) cannot be called by K0MMIE because K0MMIE is not privileged - sorry.

I like it. 24 hours is plenty of time to sober up and fix grievous errors, after that people just have to stand by what they write.

Weaaaaaaaak. Gaaaaaaaaaay. Laaaaaaaaame. Next thing you know we'll awesome Mods with names like DragonQuestSlayer1 that remove anything they don't like. Hello Gamespot.

Well, I wanted to edit my last post, but I dunno if I caught it soon enough. Guess just make more comments is the answer. CHOGGIE FTW, posers lay down!

Oh.....sober.....Well, easy to write off truth by pulljng the alcohol card-Simply.....a lack of comprehension admission would suffice....Sober is my middle fucking name.....

*sticky

Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by choggie.

Honored to be reckoned as such, never knew the man-Left periods, innit???
Who IS/WAS this man snakeplissken????....Tell us more, please-Seems someone has an opinion based in hard fact......

SG knows, axe her.......

*unsticky

Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by rasch187.

this is what happens when a site gets too popular. creators abandon their most loyal early adopters because of a stupid disagreement. it's not like losing a few members will hurt your ad revenue bottom line. follow in digg's footsteps; that's what you've been trying to do since the beginning. and doing a fine job of it.

it's draconian to take away our ability to change or alter our own comments. and as far as the "breaking the comment flow" goes, people should be quoting the person they're speaking to when they respond in the first place. then it won't matter if a previous comment is taken away. reddit does it with the ">" symbol. pretty simple really.

oh well, time to move on for me anyway. i'll probably be banned for voicing my opinion too.

You don't like it, gtfo.

Why do you want the ability? For the principle of the thing? To be able to duck and cover, and erase all your steps here? Then DON'T POST.

Quotes can be changed anyway, look:

>> ^joemawlma:
Waah waah waaah, freedom of speech, waah waah waah, draconian, waaaah

It's not like we don't have any say in the matter, we did get it changed to 24hours before lockdown.