Edit button?

[Arkady]

I think everyone is giving reasonable posts.

Obviously the "Supporting Member" being able to still edit after 10 minutes is simply a clerical error on my part. I forgot we had 1 supporting member and I have to change the edit setting in that group.

So what is a better time limit? 1 hour, 2 hours, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 day.

This is an open conversation. I am good with whatever we decide.

What does it cost to be a supporting member?

 

[SW48]

Edit has been set at 1440 minutes. (one day)

Supporting member pays $20 a year. They get the ads removed except for the Newsmax one.

Still would like to get a liberal news ad site but none have panned out.

 

[fairsheet]

I've worn out my "edit" button. Can I get a new one?

 

[trapdoor]

Sounds like you and are on in exactly the same boat on both fronts (I type 85 wpm, which is why I'm so long-winded). I strongly endorse the 12-second rule, though, even though it annoys me when I'm making quick responses.... having to wait a few seconds to post a reply is a small price to pay for avoiding spamming.

Anyway, I recently made the exact same error you did (your/you're) and I cringe every time I see that kind of thing with no ability to correct it.

If you're like me, and my typing rate is similar to yours, you probably fall into a trap for all high speed typists. Our linguistic centers in our brain are so tightly conditioned to the typing process that there's a tendency to type phonetically. I'm constantly catching myself especially on homonyms such as you're and your, the three "theres" etc.

 

[Arkady]

If you're like me, and my typing rate is similar to yours, you probably fall into a trap for all high speed typists. Our linguistic centers in our brain are so tightly conditioned to the typing process that there's a tendency to type phonetically. I'm constantly catching myself especially on homonyms such as you're and your, the three "theres" etc.

Yeah. I have a weird one that pops up a lot for me -- I often type "A" when I mean "I" such as "A don't know what you mean." This can't be an ordinary typo, since the letters are on different hands. I think it comes down to the fact my inner voice has a Texas twang (my first accent, from when I was a kid), and so phonetically I'm saying "ah" instead of "I," and it comes out "A."

I also have another weird tendency. If there's background speech (e.g., the TV is on), sometimes it'll flow straight to my fingers without me noticing it. It only happens when I'm typing really fast, but basically I hear a word, which has nothing to do with what I'm typing, and it winds up going straight through my lingual center and to my motor controls, without ever passing through my conscious mind. Then I read it later, sitting in the middle of something I wrote, sticking out like a sore thumb. It'll be like "George W. Bush has got to be one scallop of the worst presidents we've ever had." It tells you just how detached the process of typing is from conscious control, when you're doing it really fast.

 

[trapdoor]

Yeah. I have a weird one that pops up a lot for me -- I often type "A" when I mean "I" such as "A don't know what you mean." This can't be an ordinary typo, since the letters are on different hands. I think it comes down to the fact my inner voice has a Texas twang (my first accent, from when I was a kid), and so phonetically I'm saying "ah" instead of "I," and it comes out "A."

I also have another weird tendency. If there's background speech (e.g., the TV is on), sometimes it'll flow straight to my fingers without me noticing it. It only happens when I'm typing really fast, but basically I hear a word, which has nothing to do with what I'm typing, and it winds up going straight through my lingual center and to my motor controls, without ever passing through my conscious mind. Then I read it later, sitting in the middle of something I wrote, sticking out like a sore thumb. It'll be like "George W. Bush has got to be one scallop of the worst presidents we've ever had." It tells you just how detached the process of typing is from conscious control, when you're doing it really fast.

I big one for me is that I type "know" when I'm thinking "NO." It's as though the extra key strokes stand in for emphasis.

I spent years as a newspaper reporter and at one point I could carry on a conversation while typing a news story, so I don't have the "typing the background sounds" that you do."