HEY!!!

[SB 405]

What happened to the "edit" feature? My spelling ain't nothing to write home about guys and I need all the help I can get.:lol:

[redhead]

I think that it may have to do with someone deleting post a few days/weeks after the fact.

[redhead]

EDIT
:smile:

One forum I visit allows you to edit post for up to one hour after you have posted. Just an idea.

Back to my obersvation post.

Red

[dw]

I can't spell either, so I feel your pain! ;) May I suggest Google Toolbar with spellcheck? ( toolbar.google.com ) Works wonders for me.

Unfortunately the feature was being abused, so only officers are allowed to edit now. Feel free to email me or a moderator if you need to modify a post. And this forum software doesn't have a time provision, sorry.

[redhead]

And this forum software doesn't have a time provision, sorry.

No worries.

Thanks!

[Dipmo]

There is always the old, cut your post into Word, edit it as needed and repaste it into the message window. Not that I would ever do such a thing.

[KingFrankSam]

ie Spell is a great, free, little plug-in for Internet Explorer that spell checks text input on a web page. It can be found at: http://www.iespell.com/ It is eazy to uze, adn wurks greight!

[Cameron]

hahaha. I do not need such a computer program, because hookt on foniccs rillee wirked for me!

[redhead]

ie Spell is a great, free, little plug-in for Internet Explorer that spell checks text input on a web page. It can be found at: http://www.iespell.com/ It is eazy to uze, adn wurks greight!Funny thing...

Here I am at work, at 0005 and I was thinking, wait, I have IESPELL as well. Tell them about that.

Guess I need to go home.

[FuelInjection09]

I'd like to apologize for abusing the "edit" feature. I just wanted to go back and delete some personal info I foolishly posted. I didn't realize the possible potential of making enemies on this forum. Again, that was my bad. :shock:ops:

[SB 405]

Only Officers are allowed to edit....WHAT????....So all us non Officers pay the price because of one knucklehead :mad:

[Your Mentor]

Hey SB, perhaps you should PM dw.

[SB 405]

Hey SB, perhaps you should PM dw.

I made him an offer he can't refuse:lol:

[dw]

Only Officers are allowed to edit....WHAT????....So all us non Officers pay the price because of one knucklehead :mad:

Yup. Much like most laws, everyone gets restricted because of the actions of a few.

SB, you know we're hiring! If I may pry, have you thought about applying? 27 weeks at Camp CHP and you can edit again! ;)

[Your Mentor]

I'm not sure dw, and please SB 405, don't be offended, but aren't you too old for the hiring process? The length of time you've been in the hospitality industry makes me think you're just over the cut-off. Didn't you mention that in an earlier post somewhere? If not; then you should start the process. You know . . . we have hundreds of non-uniformed positions and our non-uniformed are as much a part of the CHP family as uniformed. I don't even perceive a difference anymore. Public Affairs in Headquarters is mostly non-uniformed. Our non-uniformed even have rank. We have non-uniformed LT, Capt., and Chief equivilants. Honestly, though, in spite of the amount of time you have invested in your current career, it's never too late to start a new career. Oh, and did I mention there's no maximum age for non-uniformed and no mandatory retirement age. We even have retired officers get hired as annuatents (sp?) in various HQ jobs; and they're no longer uniformed when they do.

[SB 405]

No offence taken Mentor because age is something that is going to happen to all of us. And yes I am to old for the hiring process at age 48. I'm sure I would have made a good Officer because I've lived a pretty healthy lifestyle,kept out of trouble with the law,don't have a problem with authority etc..If I have one problem it would be I just never seem to test well. I took the written test for two different Fire Departments back in the early eighties but fell short on passing both times. I'll never forget going into a LA City fire station one day to pick up my application and talking with the Captain on duty and him looking me right in the eye and saying "son,with the big push these days with the department to hire minorities you've got a snowballs chance in hell of making it" Keep in mid guys this was the early eighities and many departments were doing the same. So I hit the books and tested anyway but like I said I just came up short.

[SB 405]

[quote=SB 405]Only Officers are allowed to edit....WHAT????....So all us non Officers pay the price because of one knucklehead :mad:

"Yup. Much like most laws, everyone gets restricted because of the actions of a few."


Okay but don't say I didn't try to warn you guys if some of my postings come out looking like a six year old wrote them.


:rolleyes:

[Your Mentor]

Sorry to hear that. Hell, I'm 45 and get in trouble all the time.

[SB 405]

For some reason Mentor I pictured you a little younger. Guess a few of us are getting a little long in the tooth:lol:

[K-Lo]

There is always the old, cut your post into Word, edit it as needed and repaste it into the message window. Not that I would ever do such a thing.

Um.....**cough** yeah me neither **cough** :shock:ops:

[SB 405]

Ya know I think I'll just type slower;)

[Welpe]

Good thinking SB, since I read pretty slow, I will be able to keep up with your posts better. :lol:

[SB 405]

dw let me ask just one more question about this edit issue. You said it was being abused therefore it was being removed. Why would someone editing a post once,twice or a dozen times be a problem? Unless I'm missing something I can't understand someone tweaking a post (even multiple times) being a real problem. And what would have been wrong with giving us some kind of advanance warning that editing would be removed if the "abuse" continued? Seems like you pulled the plug on us a little quick.....Okay I've vented and feel better.

[dw]

dw let me ask just one more question about this edit issue. You said it was being abused therefore it was being removed. Why would someone editing a post once,twice or a dozen times be a problem? Unless I'm missing something I can't understand someone tweaking a post (even multiple times) being a real problem. And what would have been wrong with giving us some kind of advanance warning that editing would be removed if the "abuse" continued? Seems like you pulled the plug on us a little quick.....Okay I've vented and feel better.

As you're aware, a certain thread got to the point of threatening legal and/or formal action against someone who is presumably a member of the Department. In the opinion of myself and the mods, nothing inappropriate (although possibly inflammatory) had been said -- certainly nothing worthy of anyone (on either side) feeling intimidated or threatening formal action. The edit function was used to delete much of that conversation. If the forum kept a change log, I wouldn't care, but when a post is gone, it's gone.

We're already walking the fine line of creating a nexus to the Department here, and I'm not going to play around with what I perceive as unwarranted threats of action. I don't want an officer getting burned, because of this or in the future, because of something that was deleted or edited. I also don't want to be on the receiving end of a subpoena and only have edited posts to show.

Am I overreacting? Maybe. Do I take (again, what I perceive as) false accusations against another personally? You bet. Part of this comes from the issue of complaints in general. We've already discussed recording contacts, and the things people pull out of the air to accuse us of can be unbelievable. Again, I wouldn't want to go down because there wasn't documentation of what was really said, and I want to protect everyone on this site. That goes for officers and the public.

Am I being a hypocrite for allowing officers to edit? Probably. In fact, it may be more important for an officer to retain an original post to prove what he/she said -- the burden of proof is often on us in an investigation. But I'll allow the officers to make the choice about what to edit, because if they decide to edit a post, chances are it will come back on them.

...And I made the change without warning because a) I was pissed off and b) I didn't want anything else disappearing.

All that said, I'm willing to revisit the idea. We (the mods) discussed removing edit on a case-by-case basis. I'd prefer not to babby-sit and I'm not sure how feasible that would be logistically, but I'll look into it.

[SB 405]

Okay dw thank's for clearing this up. Like I said in my other post "Unless I'm missing something" and it's now understood why you did what you felt best. Not being able to edit is not the end of the world by any means but what can I say...I had questions.