And i believe this is a wrong move like RATS. I would not post if didn’t feel so strongly about this site. But i do. No matter what other members may think of me.
This is how it is for me.
Since joining ats i have had some great fun. Adding opinion, posting topics i discovered new things here at ats where i would never have learnt anywhere else. It’s like a sanctuary. Somewhere i can come and see the opinions of people and converse with them on topics which are laughed at and ridiculed by most. I enjoy it so much that it has kept me going while i quit a certain habit [cannabis] and has made my playstation obsolete [im thinking of selling it]. Although my posting has never been really excessive i still enjoy adding what i believe, my perspective to threads that i feel i could contribute to. I love ats even though it can feel a cold and lonely place now and again.
The edit feature was important.
Sometimes i will make a post and sometimes not get a response so after some careful scrutiny which may have happened normally more then 2 hours later but usually the next day i would use the edit feature and get the response i was looking for. Sometimes it can be something very simple a change in the grammar and people will post. This i have put down to what i call post snobbery. "Oh i can’t reply in that thread when the member has such bad grammar or has explained his topic imperfectly"
So you see this edit ability was very important to me, like another member said earlier
Originally posted by SkipShipman
End Users Want Control
Yes that is exactly it! People want control over their computing, and it appears more like the strategy of a netnanny than anything else, to remove editing features that have been part of the "abovetopsecret." experience.
This is true. Sort of.
I can see that it must be infuriating to go in to a thread and find that someone has altered a response which may spin a whole new light on a thread as being read by a member who was not involved with that thread at the time, but people who do that sort of thing are idiots. Do we all have to suffer for their stupidity?
Is there not some way we as members can earn the right to have our edit function switched on permanantly. Especially in marg and Sauron's case they have valid reason.
This reply and the one i wrote on the other subject of RATS have taken a good part of my evening. You see im not exactly a brainiac who can whip up a solid reply on a subject [like Majic, im not having a pop mate] just like that. And as i said maybe tomorrow when i log back in i might think, "dope that grammar is terrible it’s a no wonder SO hasn’t replied." But i have spent this time because i feel strongly about these two issues.
I wonder why there is little input on this subject.
Is it that ats members feel the same way i do but don't reply because there afraid they might get banned or warned or because like me they would like to say "well stuff you and your bl@@dy site" but don’t want to because they to have found refuge here?
Sorry if i sound like a drama queen, but the edit button, please. extend it to a week or so.
Edited unnecessary drama, no harm done, or is there? you tell me.
[edit on 8-12-2004 by kode]
[edit on 8-12-2004 by kode]
