… Oh, as far as correcting my many typos or clarifying glitches in previous posts, I do it all too frequently, although it’s a little awkward when somebody else has pasted some portion of my post in their reply, and then I find something that needs fixing. I go and fix my original message, and then that posting by that someone else still has an excerpt floating in it that no longer exists in my post to which they’re referring.
EdIt: Whatever response they have to the pasted fragment is accurate forget, even if that pasted fragment no longer exists in any prior postings. Nobody pays for the contents off this Forum (except their time), and the value of the information herein is worth at least that price. Changing information for the better adds value to a post, even if it just corrects a typographical error. Unless marks of a virtual red editing pencil can be shown, it’s not a huge problem if changes aren’t highlighted. Presumably the OP rereads the entire thread before making a decision based on responses. There are often opposing suggestions, so there’s not always an obvious consensus, corrections/changes or not. Again, they get at least what they paid for, from volunteers who are sharing their opinions and experiences. The Webmaster has posted guidelines and “rules,” but dealing with typos and updates hasn’t been critical enough to warrant rules to manage them.
OK, back to what I’d originally includdd in this post: Then there are times I come across an old message of mine with a typo, but the thread is frozen because it’s so old. That typo remains out there in the Web, and I have no way of fixing it, erroneous forever. Sigh.
