Why can I not edit a post that’s only an hour or two old or older, but I can edit a post immediately after posting it? I made a post that has a few autocorrect errors that I want to fix so people understand what I said.

Absurd forum policy right?

The choices made here on the new and improved RCU make ya scratch your head

Report it and let me know what you want fixed.

There's a reason for the edit lockout

serious trust issues here,
there have been instances of folks changing posts, adds mostly, after the fact. still do not see why it can not be specifically directed to the classifieds, the post edit timeout, that is.

Thank you, but No Thank You. RCU is a great forum and known for not having the pedantry and arguing that happens on the other big RC site. They don’t seem to have a problem with allowing editing indefinitely..

If users are not allowed to edit their posts after just a few hours, with no allowance of changing the “rules” just because of a few bad seeds, then I think I may rethink about posting here. That may be brash, but I think it’s a tad ridiculous to require a moderator to edit posts. Some of us have been here for 15 years or more and have amassed 9,000+ posts - primarily because this is the better forum IMHO. I cannot think of how long it’s been since one of my posts was reported or I was scolded by moderation for one of my posts. Can the admin team rethink the decision to revoke the edit function?

So this is just another thing that RCU Admin is going to tell it’s users to pound sand on?

huh.. whatever. 🙄🙄

Nevermind. Was testing something.

There is unfortunately not a setting for changing edit time by area of the site.

Still no reason given for the revocation of the edit function? 🙄.

whatever.

I’ve been a user here for what... 14 years. Almost 10k posts. Never been suspended, and have had but only a few posts deleted. Yet Internet Brands nor the moderators can answer a simple question.

Thanks for being stand-up guys here. Seriously, thank you In this time of unprecedented “togetherness” and “communityism”, people still gotta act a fool. Frickin righteous.

You don't need to be attacking me, I just clean up posts that are against the rules.
The reason as I understand it is that people were abusing it

OK WHY CAN'T I EDIT MY POST ? I can't mark anything sold !!!!

This is exactly right and there have been several threads on this. Please do a quick search when you have questions before posting a thread. Indefinite editing allows unscrupulous users to edit prices after a sale agreement. There's no way to change the edit window based on the area of the site. Those settings are global.

Just use a new post to mark it sold. That's what most other users do.

LoL. Sounds like the bigger problem is forum software functionality. The problems you show to be evident here are not evident on other sites with far more users and more traffic. But if putting a band-aid on it lets you sleep better at night, so be it.

Okay Pal. Thanks but no thanks. Better close this one down since it’s already been answered. A couple times.

I miss the old RCU.