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Not entirely sure how you can abuse old edits in any context, especially when there are public edit logs.
I guess you are saying that because the topic on meta that I linked to says Leaders… Note it also says trust level 3.
Since that topic was started over a year ago, the trust levels have been renamed. ‘Leader’ is now the label for trust level 4 which is by manual assignment only.
We have a bunch of trust level 3 users which are now called ‘Regular’.
Trust level 3 users do not get the nofollow attribute set on links that they post.
The nofollow attribute effects search engine ranking. Users could abuse this by going back and editing old posts to include links to sites that they want to improve the ranking of.
Because they’re old, no one will notice. If they put the links in new or recent posts, they’re more likely to be spotted.
Any new development on this issue?
Ringeding ding ringe ding ding ding.
Yeah, he probabaly doesn’t know how to solve this issue without backslasch in the future … just rather decided to play some more Battlescape Prototype.
Anyway this topic must be the leading cause for Keith pinging by now.
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For now, any threads that require an edited OP we should just remake after 6 months. Many forums (usually much bigger) provide a post limit before a thread is locked, in our case we’ll need to do it based on time passed. though this will mean things get spammy for corporation threads.
Let’s wait for some answer from Keith before starting to make all those duplicate threads. I would prefer the old ones to be editable.
I think Keith is just too busy to answer to this issue atm (although not busy enough to not comment on Dwarf Fortress 
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Priorities, Lucas, Priorities!
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Web upgrade is scheduled for next month. I’ll address it then.
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Just to be clear @INovaeKeith, it’s just a case of setting the post_edit_time_limit setting on the settings page.
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Is that a hint about the Kickstarter?
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It could be
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Not sure if this was answered yet by @INovaeKeith. If this is the case and it is just a matter of minutes then could you consider making such a minor change even sooner than the web upgrade? Would mean a lot for at least a few threads here 
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Also…
That was August 25. Not a lot left of September
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Forum update has clearly happened. And the editing limit still remains.
So does this mean the editing limit of old posts will stay?
Yeah I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. I’m currently juggling a lot of different things. I’ll get to it eventually.
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Everything seems more… round.
Only 2 kinks I see, one with logging on and another with text editing, but I like it.
It runs a lot smother then before. 
It is done!!!
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