Editing an in-thread comment
bodawei
March 05, 2010, 03:28 AM posted in General DiscussionI have tried a couple of times, yesterday and today, to change something I have written in an in-thread comment. I cannot get it to work. I hit 'Edit', make my correction, and then find there is no button for confirming the correction. The available buttons are 'Edit' (which does nothing if you hit it again) and 'Cancel'. Can ChinesePod staff look at this?
xiaophil
Ironically, I had similar problems when I tried to reply to you yesterday.
bodawei
Interesting, you were 'just' replying, adding another comment to the thread. I was trying to edit comments I had just posted. But maybe there is a common cause?
rods
Nope. I can't edit either. I get the Edit box, but clicking the Edit button does nothing.
Must be a new bug.
(I'm using the same browser Firefox 3.5.8, NoScript with permissions set appropriately)
go_manly
March 06, 2010, 09:17 AMAs I mentioned elsewhere, HTML codes don't seem to work when editing, so there is no way to reformat a comment.
test1 test2
'test1' should have been bold, so HTML also doesn't work when adding a comment to a thread.
(However, the above sentence was an edit, so edit does work - sorry bodawei)
pretzellogic
March 05, 2010, 03:44 AMI've just experienced this problem as well, but it wasn't from an in-thread comment. It was trying to add a brand new comment.
bodawei
March 05, 2010, 03:58 AMSeems like there is a generic posting function problem.
Or maybe not?
Maybe some of us are being censored. Or (in my case) censured.
I feel a conspiracy theory coming on.
bodawei
March 05, 2010, 04:04 AMFor information of ChinesePod I'm using Google Chrome on XP.
zhenlijiang
March 05, 2010, 04:06 AMHey guys I've been finding since yesterday, that nothing seems to happen when you hit Edit the second time after editing an already-posted comment (not just replies), but as long as you have actually hit it, once you leave the page, the edited version appears. It is disconcerting.
I'm sure it will be fixed soon ...
conspiracy, hahaha
go_manly
I posted a comment to this effect a couple of days ago, but someone deleted it within minutes. (And no, it wasn't in a lesson-related thread)
rods
You're right! I see my edits did appear. I capitalized the "N" in nope and added "Edit 1" in a couple posts farther up.
Good catch zhenlijiang!
bodawei
Good on you Zhenlijiang. I actually wondered to myself if this was the go, but it is a somewhat 'disconcerting' method of posting, as you say. [Note to Microsoft: use the term 'disconcerting' when avoiding mentions of bugs, as in 'some users have found the new improved function disconcerting but after a little practice you will get in the groove.']
@go-manly. There you go on the conspiracy .. tch tch. You may have experienced the same as others - the post spontaneously disappears.
bababardwan
zhen,
Yeah,initially it wasn't working at all.The way around this I found was to just copy what you'd written,delete the post,hit the reply button,paste,edit what you've pasted and then hit reply.Just a tip in case it plays up again.But yeah,it got fixed later on yesterday to the point where if you went elsewhere the edit function had worked.
go_manly
I wasn't claiming a conspiracy - it only takes one over-zealous Cpod employee to delete my comment.
xiaophil
March 05, 2010, 03:42 AMIronically, I had similar problems when I tried to reply to you yesterday.
rods
March 05, 2010, 04:12 AMYou're right! I see my edits did appear. I capitalized the "N" in nope and added "Edit 1" in a couple posts farther up.
Good catch zhenlijiang!
bodawei
March 05, 2010, 04:28 AMGood on you Zhenlijiang. I actually wondered to myself if this was the go, but it is a somewhat 'disconcerting' method of posting, as you say. [Note to Microsoft: use the term 'disconcerting' when avoiding mentions of bugs, as in 'some users have found the new improved function disconcerting but after a little practice you will get in the groove.']
@go-manly. There you go on the conspiracy .. tch tch. You may have experienced the same as others - the post spontaneously disappears.
bababardwan
March 05, 2010, 05:47 AMzhen,
Yeah,initially it wasn't working at all.The way around this I found was to just copy what you'd written,delete the post,hit the reply button,paste,edit what you've pasted and then hit reply.Just a tip in case it plays up again.But yeah,it got fixed later on yesterday to the point where if you went elsewhere the edit function had worked.
ousijia
March 05, 2010, 07:36 AMSorry everyone, we are in the process of fixing... no conspiracy... promise!
xiao_liang
March 05, 2010, 10:17 AMShe's one of them! It can't be true! They're trying to silence us!
*gank*
bodawei
March 06, 2010, 09:14 AMI think that there is still a problem .. maybe people are having their weekend and will get back to it on Monday. I tried to edit a comment (in News and Features), applying the recently successful Zhenlijiang Method, but this time my edit failed to appear. At least the un-edited original post is still there. This is WAY beyond me so I think that I will go and read a book.
go_manly
As I mentioned elsewhere, HTML codes don't seem to work when editing, so there is no way to reformat a comment.
test1 test2
'test1' should have been bold, so HTML also doesn't work when adding a comment to a thread.
(However, the above sentence was an edit, so edit does work - sorry bodawei)
orangina
Really?!?!? Let me give it a try.
Well, that is disappointing. Maybe it is some weird middle step in the improvements that are being made? Hopefully?
go_manly
March 05, 2010, 04:10 AMI posted a comment to this effect a couple of days ago, but someone deleted it within minutes. (And no, it wasn't in a lesson-related thread)
bodawei
March 05, 2010, 03:37 AMFurthermore, it seems that if you hit the 'Edit' a second time, the entire post disappears. I'm not sure that I can reproduce this exactly for you, but a couple of times I have tried to edit an in-thread comment and the whole thing has been lost.