Moving a post - Change the tagging via EDIT

Pallas

If you want to move one of your own threads, one that you yourself started, it seems that when you hit the edit button on your original post, you can edit the tag. If you change the tag, your post will show up under the new forum. Anyone want to test this to make sure I'm not hallucinating?

I thought we couldn't move threads between forums, but changing the tagging seems to be the answer?

twocats

Pallas just did my with my practice journal thread, had been thinking it should go in Member Recordings anyway!

Pallas

twocats Thanks for testing.

twocats

Will add this to the Tip & Tricks thread!

navindra

Yes, indeed you can. It's by design right now. Authors can update their content, rename the thread, and move the thread. No time limit. Mods can as well.

Frank apparently allowed infinite edits in the past and it eventually resulted in havoc, so we'll see. 😃

twocats

navindra Frank apparently allowed infinite edits in the past and it eventually resulted in havoc, so we'll see.

I mentioned it elsewhere but is there an option to enable edits where you can see the history? That way someone can't gaslight others by editing their posts.

Josephine

navindra Frank apparently allowed infinite edits in the past and it eventually resulted in havoc, so we'll see. 😃

I'm on a forum for a different hobby for 20 years now, and you can edit your posts for as long as you want. A few years ago there was one person who was editing on purpose so it looked like your reply was very weird or unkind, but that was the only incident in 20 years.

When you edit your post over there it says underneath your post: last edited: date and time. So, people can see it when post was edited after someone replied.

navindra

twocats Indeed, very reasonable request... I'll need to look into that!

twocats

navindra thank you!! 🙂