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frako Member (Idle past 502 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
No problem i had the same problems, im used to clicking on a box marked quote that writes the code for you.
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Jon Inactive Member |
Very lovely. Thank you very much. Just noticed it the other day.
Jon
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Adminnemooseus Administrator Posts: 3983 Joined: |
im used to clicking on a box marked quote that writes the code for you. The board software used to and probably still does have the option of a "reply with quote" button, which would be located at the bottom of the individual messages by the other reply button. There was a past history of bad things often happening when this function was used, so it was disabled. Even if things didn't get fouled up, you could end up with multiple layers of quotes within quotes and in general way too much bulk in what was getting quoted. Even worse, people would sometimes edit down or break up into smaller chucks what was getting quoted. This is indeed a good thing to do, but too often the coding would get done incorrectly resulting is a giant mess of a message. It took a lot of administrative time and effort to try to fix said messes, thus the option had to go. See also the Reply Quote function button to be disabled topic from back in 2003. Also Admin's message here. Adminnemooseus
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
The system is not letting me edit messages in Free For All.
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Can you describe the symptoms? For example, is the problem that you see no edit button? Or do you submit the edit but then don't see the changes? Can you edit in other threads?
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
I get the following message when I try to edit. "Reference to non-existent message 0. Please click your Back button and try again."
After posting this message I'll try to edit it. Testing It works fine here. ABE: Testing Edited by Buzsaw, : No reason given. Edited by Buzsaw, : No reason given. Edited by Buzsaw, : Test
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ringo Member (Idle past 608 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
I just had the same problem in the same thread.
"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I was unable to reproduce the problem on my development machine, I'll try again at the web site.
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I am unable to reproduce the problem in the Bush's Shia Islamic War Vs Obama's Sunni War thread. Is that the right thread? If so, can you check if the problem still exists? Some of the changes in the recent update were improvements to the edit code.
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nwr Member Posts: 6481 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 9.9 |
My take was that what buz was reporting was due to a temporary database sync problem.
Jesus was a liberal hippie
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ringo Member (Idle past 608 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
I still can't edit my message 42 in that thread. The error message that I'm getting now is "Validation error. Sorry." I also tried to edit my message 56 and I have the same problem. I haven't had editing problems in any other thread.
ABE: I can edit this message. Edited by ringo, : Test. "I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"
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jar Member Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: Member Rating: 7.5 |
Strange, I just tested edit at Message 6 and had no problems.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Please attempt to edit one of those messages again, then cut-n-paste the error message you get into a reply to this message. Please be sure to include the numbers at the end.
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ringo Member (Idle past 608 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Like this?
quote:
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Admin Director Posts: 13100 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
That's perfect. I've added more data, could you please repeat?
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