Edit Post Time Limit

Why is there a time limit on editing one's posts? A lot of times when I ask a question I find myself thinking of something literally after I no longer can edit my post wanting to add something new that might help a little or just at the time didn't really think of.

If major geeks goes from oldest to newest in terms of helping people this 5 minute time window for editing aa post seems, well bad.

In all honesty posts should remain editable, at least until it is no longer the last post on a topic. After all 5 minutes isn't really a whole lot of time and if you like me and have a not so great internal clock you'll end up rushing to edit your post making mistakes along the way even though in reality you replied seconds ago.

I guess I really like to take my sweet time when editing a post, and having a five minute time limit really doesn't give me the time to really well relax.

Now I know what you're probably gonna say to that, and that is to collect your thought before you reply. Thing is I do that plenty of times, but even so I may end up discovering or finding out something, but because of the five mute thing I'll end up having to wait until the next reply so that I don't feel like I'm double posting or wait around 5 -12 days so that again I don't feel like I'm double posting.

 

I would suggest if you know your post will be long and you want to check it for errors or change your wording then you might want to type it in Notepad or something similar first then copy and paste it into your post here. That way you can read it and correct it taking as much time as you need.

 

But I don't see why you can't make it so only the last person who posted on a topic is the only one capable of editing their own post. Especially if it's the person seeking help from the site. Double posting in such cases would only make it so that the time it takes to get any response would be that much longer. It even says to edit your posts as oposed to double posting due to the fact that the site goes from oldest to newest, rather than newest to oldest. Seeing that if it's the OP of the topic who was looking for help to begin with why that can't be a rule that only applies to them or such.

 

oh ok then what's the method for other areas newest to oldest? Also why is it different for malware? Is it because you get vastly more malware topics then the other areas?

 

This is what you should do - as katkat suggested.
If you have to edit your post afterwards, look for a moderator online and send a message to him/her.

 

Yea but now i'm kinda curios why malware is the only one that's different. it's like one of these forums is not like the others one does it backwards

 

It is pretty simple. In the Malware Forum all post are related to Malware and the Malware Experts are there to help with Malware.
They help in the order request were made.
In the Software and Hardware Forums topics are about lots of different problems using different operating systems and different software or different hardware and people are helped as soon as someone who can help with a particular problem sees the request and replies. Some people are more knowledgeable in different areas.