Just curious - and the answer is probably really obvious, but here goes.

Why do some posts have a note at the end saying 'This post has been edited...... etc?

I understand why it is there when the post has been edited by a moderator, but sometimes the note appears when a poster has edited their own post.

I sometimes (well quite often) use the pencil eraser to correct a typo ... the 'Edited' message doesn't appear then.

Oh Sheena, I am the Queen of typos, unless I put it in a word document then look at it again several hours later.
I have to edit most of my posts and I try SO hard not to do typos.
We can't see our own "edit" message but I'm pretty darn sure everybody else can.
Look, I will post this and edit it. You tell me if it says that I edited it, OK?

added on: the black and white cat sat on my keyboard and shed hairs into it

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Originally posted by Sheena:
Why do some posts have a note at the end saying 'This post has been edited...... etc?

I understand why it is there when the post has been edited by a moderator, but sometimes the note appears when a poster has edited their own post.

Hi Sheena,
Each poster can edit his or her own posts for up to an hour after the original posting time.

At some point within that hour, the message board software generates an automatic " ... edited by ..." message. It used to be seven minutes (don't ask me why!) after the original time, but I think it's longer than that now.

Thanks Colleen. As I said I was just curious....hate to think I am missing something!

No problemo. I'm the same way - there are a couple of message board admin functions I'm still trying to figure out!

I think we have it set now so you can edit for one hour, and no "edited by" appears, and after that you cannot edit. Up until six months ago you could then edit your post forever, but the "edited by" appeared - but we found some very old posts that people had edited and we had no way of knowing that they did this. They could change them to say anything and we would not know unless we came across it by accident. So I changed the system to no longer allow editing after 1 hour.

So, the posts you see with the "edited by" that are not edited by a mod, must be more than six months old. If not, post a link to one here so I can check this out.

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I think we have it set now so you can edit for one hour, and no "edited by" appears, and after that you cannot edit.

I thought I'd seen the 'edited by' on some recent posts, too, but I just tested my last one [35 minutes after original post time] and the notice didn't appear.

Sheena,
Now you have the straight scoop from the Administrator! I'll try to get my facts right next time.

Now you realize I wont rest until I find the posts I saw with 'Edited'.

My curiosity always gets the better of me!!

OK the one I found was actually a PM. It was sent at 7:08 and then edited (by the person who sent the message) at 7:22.

Perhaps it just appears on PM's to show that the original information has been changed - perhaps it is more important to know that there has been a change on PM's???

Since the PM is just that (i.e. 'private') it would not be important to have a time limit on editing.