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ODS · Post by **ODS** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:51 am

In 32830, one of the options says to "Pray to jesus for "Josh" To come back. I am assuming you ment Scott? Insted of Josh.

Lots42guest · Post by **Lots42guest** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:45 am

Yes, I did mean Scott. But Josh is just the kind of person to pray for himself to return to his present location

ODS · Post by **ODS** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:32 pm

Thats true

ODS · Post by **ODS** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 4:39 pm

And in 36368 you said that she had a bunny "Hose".
I siriously Laughed out loud when i saw that.
But still, i hope it's a typo

Lots42guest · Post by **Lots42guest** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:53 am

Yeah, I meant 'nose'. Once again, making me wish for a sign in thing like Horsehockey had where you could go back and edit any and all of your old posts, even ones from years ago.

(I still can't quite understand the objections to this but I blame ninjas...I mean myself. And bunnies. Ninja bunnies)

JH · Post by JH » Sun Nov 30, 2003 10:46 am

I don't know what Sir Toby's reason is for not allowing episodes to be edited by the user indefinitely. One possible reason is that once an episode has been continued, any further edits if not carefully done could lead to continuity glitches. Of course, as moderator I'm happy to consider requests for corrections of typos where the user can't do it himself (or herself).

(Though I should mention that at present real life is getting in the way of my spending as much time here as I'd like.)

Post by **Sir Toby** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 11:43 pm

JH wrote:I don't know what Sir Toby's reason is for not allowing episodes to be edited by the user indefinitely. One possible reason is that once an episode has been continued, any further edits if not carefully done could lead to continuity glitches.

I seem to remember some sort of discussion about this back when I first introduced the edit feature.

*shuffle* *shuffle*

Okay... Turns out that this change was implemented for Version 2.1.0 of Extend-A-Story. Here is where I first discussed version 2.1.0. Here is where I first talk about the 30 day edit limit.

I further dug around the message board looking for a discussion around that time that explains how I came to the decision to limit edits to 30 days. I can't find anything else in the message board around that time discussing this issue.

Turns out that the discussion took place within a private email exchange between myself and JH. I won't post the email here, since it would be rude to do so. I will forward the email to JH to see if he wants to make the original discussion public. However, I will mention that the reason JH stated above does pretty much cover the original concerns.

I am happy to reconsider the decision to have a time window of 30 days for editing your own episodes. If you think that the window should be longer, or that there should be no limit, let your voice be heard and we will consider whether a change is warranted.

JH · Post by JH » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:03 am

Thanks, Jeff. I'm happy for the relevant bit of our discussion to be made public. It went as follows:

Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002
From: John Hall
To: Jeff Weston
Subject: Re: Editing and mioderation

"Jeff Weston (Sir Toby)" writes
>On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, John Hall wrote:
>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> A couple of thoughts about editing and moderation.
>>
>> 1. As I understand it, somebody can now edit their own episode at any
>> time. However, if they go so after somebody has already extended it,
>> then it would be possible for them to introduce a continuity error with
>> respect to the extension.
>
>Yes, there is that problem with greatly expanding the amount of time
>within which an episode can be edited. I can prohibit editing by the
>author once the episode has been extended. However, some authors like to
>add more than one episode to a thread at once. If they find a problem in
>an earlier episode, they wouldn't be able to fix it. Perhaps there could
>be some sort of compromise? Perhaps the author is allowed to edit an
>episode up to 30 days past its creation date? After that time period, they
>could contact me or a moderator.

That sounds reasonable.

Keegan · Post by **Keegan** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:44 pm

Hmmm, if it's possible, perhaps make it so after the thirty day limit, you have to request permission from a moderator to edit the episode?

ODS · Post by **ODS** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:08 am

I believe that both sir toby and JH allow that Keegan.
Just send an e-mail in to them and they will edit it.

Keegan · Post by **Keegan** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:34 am

I meant them letting you edit the episode.

Post by **Sir Toby** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 6:55 am

Keegan wrote:I meant them letting you edit the episode.

Let me make sure I have your suggestion correct. Let me know if I'm wrong.

You want the current 30 day limit on editing your own episodes to remain in effect. However, you also want a mechanism where a moderator can elect to extend or eliminate this limit for specific episodes. The author would still be the one doing the editing.

Keegan · Post by **Keegan** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:41 pm

Yes, that is correct, Sir Toby.

Post by **Sir Toby** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:03 am

Well JH, any thoughts on this?

Do you think this is something to consider adding, or do you think a different approach might serve us better? If you like this approach, would sort of interface would you like to see for it? Perhaps an additional link near the editing section to allow you to extend the time the author is allowed to edit the episode, or something more elaborate?

ODS · Post by **ODS** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:44 am

Or, maybe there could be a log in system for editing episodes after the 30day period.

Mostly because JH or Sir toby are not at the PC 24/7, and will not be able to send an e-mail or post back ASAP.

I'm not saying that people should have to log in to make an episode, but perhaps if you have an account at the message board, you could log in using the same password and name, or vise virsa.
Althought it would be hard coding the limits to it.
for entence my name being "ods" i have many sigs that come up with "Mods insted of Ods.

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