Wish I read this before

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[Sand Crab]

[QUOTE=JillJones][color=black][font=Times New Roman]....For I’ve found the Noble ones far outnumber the truly disturbed....

I agree. Sometimes it just seems like there are more negative people because they leave such a long lasting odor. Thank you for being a positive person. It is so much nicer to open a post and find something inspiring rather than something which gets my blood pressure boiling! Remember the saying "It is hard to fly with eagles when you are surrounded by turkeys". Keep on flapping Jill!

[weary]

Wow, look at that, I quoted you. Even if there was an edit button, you could not edit that without admin status. Novel concept, eh?

I think the lack of an edit button is/was a lousy idea.

I agree, entirely. My fingers sometimes take over from my brain. When I catch them doing that I find it important to correct them immediately. It's something like training a dog. Discipline has to be immediate and firm.

Weary

[saimyoji]

Sometimes I actually re-reda wat I'v ritten beefor I clik the Submit buttin.

[Pencil Pusher]

Have I made my point?

Yes, a good point. But a different point than the one to which I responded to: In the first example the basis was for a troll altering his posts, whereas in your second point to which I am now responding, the troll misquotes others.

That said, whether I disagree with it or not, I think it'd be easier to accept if the edit button was removed from all boards or whatever you call them here. As it is now, it's easy to nag you and Rick about this one area not having the edit button that is found all throughout the rest of the forums.

We had a situation where someone was trolling on the site. He would say some very disturbing things, then later after dozens of people would post - blasting him for stuff he said, he would change his posts to look like he said something totally innocent, so that everyone after him looked stupid. To prevent this from happening ATTroll took away the edit function.

Just FYI, we sort or prefer the way things work here. People may post some obviously cruel, stupid, or improper stuff, but we would rather leave such things up where ya'll can read them and then make a judgment yourself as to what sort a person someone is rather that ATTroll and I always deleting posts and banning folks then ya'll wonder what the big deal was all about since the "evidence" is gone. Sort of like the trail community, people have to live with what they say, so they need to think before they say things - and if someone is far enough out there, the people will let them know, not some all powerfull admins.

Why no one could ever edit a quoted text and make it say something totally different than the original poster wrote. In fact they could NEVER and WOULD NEVER stoop to something so low. That would be totally unprofessional and no one that posts on this site ever acts like that....

I think the lack of an edit button is a great idea!

[Pencil Pusher]

How do you spell that French sounding word, "touche" I believe?

Good one SGT.

And since misperceptions abound on the internet, I didn't take his reply as such. More I took it as him simply making a point or stating 'how it was'.

[SGT Rock]

Personally I am not opposed to giving back the edit function, just another button to me. I was more pointing out the fact that the quote button doesn't provide any adequate guarantee of a real quote since anyone can make one up:

An example would be me making a false post like this:

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The AT needs more cell phone towers. Lets face it, anywhere else in the US help is just a phone call away. It is absurd that we deny this much needed and easy to provide service to trail hikers. Sure the addition of a few to were would impact the view in a few places, but is that such a high price to save a few lives? THINK OFTHE CHILDREN!

Fall guy, if you are going to post such ridiculous statements, at least have the guts to stand behind them and not delete them. I am sure everyone on the board would agree this is a stupid position.

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Anyway, you could insert anyone doing such a thing to anyone else.

[Pencil Pusher]

Speaking of the fall guy, have you ever wondered the long term benefits of being the six million dollar man dating the six million dollar woman?

[Pencil Pusher]

Would you have a three million dollar kid if you impregnated another woman besides the six mil gal? It seems your subsequent generations would lose value, short of incest. How would you like to be known as the $6.27 man?