"Edit" feature on questions and answers.

[bookbinder]

Dear Editor, would it be possible to install an "edit" button, so that ABers who wish to alter their question/answer after they have posted it can do so? I am thinking of the "edit" feature that Yahoo!Answers has. Sometimes an ABer will click "submit answer", only to realize that he/she has made a mistake. The choice then is to let it stand, or to post a correction, which might appear out of sequence on the screen.

[ummmm]

Nope....this has been suggested many times. It's too open to abuse. I could come in...insult someone...then change what I said. Trolls would be in heaven.

[bookbinder]

Thanks for the quick answer, ummmm.

[ummmm]

You're more than welcome :-)

Do you see where I'm coming from though?

[steg]

the old preview button would be better so you could see what you had typed before you submit

[ummmm]

Then you would no what your swear words have been changed to....

[jno]

ummmm, the old preview button didn't show what your swearwords had been changed to. It would look fine till you'd submitted it, then it would appear full of asterisks.

Not mine of course.

[bookbinder]

Oh, yes, ummmm, I see your point of view. Fair comment. There are more rude/unpleasant comments on Yahoo!Answers than there are on AB, so some people who use the Yahoo site clearly aren't bothered about changing their rude remarks, even though they have an "edit" button. But the general tone of answers/questions on AB is generally quite polite, and some ABers do really seem to be concerned if they make a mistake, so maybe an "edit" button here isn't all that necessary.

[ummmm]

Didn't it? I thought it did....but as I spent most of my time talking rubbish I tended not to preview.

I only did that if I dared venture into news...

[ummmm]

I understand what you mean bookbinder. I don't like it when I've given a thoughtful answer and then realised I've missed a vital word out.

[bookbinder]

I never knew the preview button. Did you see your posting in a separate window?

[bookbinder]

It looks as if we've all said what can be said about this, so thanks to everyone for your thoughts.