My understanding is that the modify option has a time limit, due to the recent events surrounding a member that went back to old posts a deleted all informatioin posted by that individual.
Though we can't control providers like Photobucket, we need to do all we can to limit the same situation happening to written data.
D/P
There are actually two time limits related to the "modify" button.
1) Courtesy Edit time limit which is currently set to 3 minutes. This allows the person making the post 3 minutes to modify the post before the
« Last Edit: December 17, 2017, 03:23:07 PM by TelePlay » line shows up at the bottom of the post.
2) Modify Edit time limit set to 7 days as of Jan 1, 2018, today. That allows the person who made the post or reply one week to change it and the
« Last Edit: December 17, 2017, 03:23:07 PM by TelePlay » will appear at the bottom. After one week, only a moderator can edit posts/replies that are more than one week old.
The Courtesy Edit is nice in that it allows a person to correct immediately errors (context, formatting, carriage returns, forgetting to attach images or attaching the wrong image or forgetting to put a link in the body of the text). 3 minutes is plenty of time to fix the immediately obvious errors.
The 7 day modify limit will prevent removal of the content within posts that are more than 7 days old, all of which are important to the posterity of forum and its more than 9 years of information.
It is highly suggested that modifications to old posts be done by creating a new reply using the
"quote" option in the erroneous post/reply so that both the incorrect information (now in quotes) and the correct information can be seen in the same reply. Anyone viewing the revision would then be able to see not only the correction/addition modification but also the original, erroneous text for a quick comparison.