Comments on: The Judgment of History http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2009/05/03/judgment-of-history/ Dogtown Meditations Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William Timberman http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2009/05/03/judgment-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-24 William Timberman Mon, 04 May 2009 14:13:39 +0000 http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/?p=185#comment-24 Yeah, I’ve seen comments sections which allow you to edit your own comment for up to an hour afterwards. There’s good reason, though, not to allow it for too long after the comment is posted — there’d be lots of opportunity for mischief, and for disrupting the thread, with such an arrangement. I’ve had to steel myself, in fact, not to make significant changes in my posts after putting them up. I’m like that story about Picasso, who couldn’t pass one of his earlier paintings — even if it was already hanging on the wall of someone else’s house — without adding a touch here or there. Not good for the customer, even in something as fluid as a blog. A lot of WordPress’s functionality — and flexibility — comes with plug-ins, it seems. The immediately-appearing preview, for example, is one of them. I thought it was a very effective time-saver when I first saw it on the Hag’s blog, and so I went looking for it. Maybe there’s also one which allows edit-after-posting for commenters. I’ll look. Yeah, I’ve seen comments sections which allow you to edit your own comment for up to an hour afterwards. There’s good reason, though, not to allow it for too long after the comment is posted — there’d be lots of opportunity for mischief, and for disrupting the thread, with such an arrangement. I’ve had to steel myself, in fact, not to make significant changes in my posts after putting them up. I’m like that story about Picasso, who couldn’t pass one of his earlier paintings — even if it was already hanging on the wall of someone else’s house — without adding a touch here or there. Not good for the customer, even in something as fluid as a blog.

A lot of WordPress’s functionality — and flexibility — comes with plug-ins, it seems. The immediately-appearing preview, for example, is one of them. I thought it was a very effective time-saver when I first saw it on the Hag’s blog, and so I went looking for it. Maybe there’s also one which allows edit-after-posting for commenters. I’ll look.

]]> By: LWM http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2009/05/03/judgment-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-21 LWM Mon, 04 May 2009 12:58:54 +0000 http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/?p=185#comment-21 We (I) could use an edit function. We (I) could use an edit function.

]]> By: LWM http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2009/05/03/judgment-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-20 LWM Mon, 04 May 2009 12:56:13 +0000 http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/?p=185#comment-20 Sorry, William. I got nuthin'. Nor even an "I'm glad yer dead, you rascal you." He meant nothing to me. Sorry, William.

I got nuthin’. Nor even an “I’m glad yer dead, you rascal you.”

He meant nothing to me.

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