Editing Comments

[tloyc2017]

As in, comments on pictures and other things.

I mean, come on, like we have it now, we have to delete and repost a comment for no reason just to edit it, disrupting the conversation if someone posted after the original comment.

No offense, but... that's both annoying and stupid. If you have any good reason for not allowing that, someone please tell me.

[UrbaN_LegenD TM]

Youve got a point, but if you can edit comments, you could write thing out of context. Like when you comment says that 'its a good game', the next comment of someone else says 'i agree'.but you can edit your comment and you make it 'this game sucks' . The next comment actually agrees whitout actually agreeing, you see?

[tloyc2017]

Originally posted by UrbaN_LegenD TM:

Youve got a point, but if you can edit comments, you could write thing out of context. Like when you comment says that 'its a good game', the next comment of someone else says 'i agree'.but you can edit your comment and you make it 'this game sucks' . The next comment actually agrees whitout actually agreeing, you see?

Well, yes, but you can edit forum posts; that could have the exact same consequences. It just usually doesn't.

[UrbaN_LegenD TM]

Well, steam should do something about this, its kind a stupid when i think of it...Its like steam is kind of mentally disabled, no offence steam if you read this, i still love you guys ;)

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by tloyc2014:

Well, yes, but you can edit forum posts; that could have the exact same consequences. It just usually doesn't.

Forum posts can also be quoted to prevent that issue, where comments can not.

[tloyc2017]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by tloyc2014:

Well, yes, but you can edit forum posts; that could have the exact same consequences. It just usually doesn't.

Forum posts can also be quoted to prevent that issue, where comments can not.

True.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Forum posts can also be quoted to prevent that issue, where comments can not.

Also there is a mods team on forums more then what comment have
And they can see how it was before it may have changed..

[rollinshultz]

Why not apply trust for the community instead of limitations? I am a grammar picky person, stemming from being a poor uninterested student in public school to a completely changed viewpoint once I was in college and realizing I should study hard in all my subjects because I was paying good money to attend, and I hate wasting money. I worked hard to improve my ability to dialog and communicate as it is one of the most important and valuable skills to be had in life and it is mostly free leaving no excuse.

It bothers me that an otherwise fantastic site like Steam Community lacks a basic industry standard such as comment editing. Often, you can be in a rush and overlook proof reading or you spot something just as you hit the post button. I trust most people in this community are up front and honest and though there always are some few bad apples in every public endeavor, I strongly believe they are a minority and irrelevant.

I hope to see this issue properly addressed going forward. Btw, another thing I find very strange is that when typing comments if a word is misspelled, you will get squiggly lines to indicate it but the typical right click on the word or as in my case I press the windows context key, and corrections are offered. This behavior/feature is missing here. So, I suppose in the meantime I must write my posts in MS Word and copy/paste into steam.

Another suggestion is a preview feature to see how the comment(s) will look once submitted.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by rollinshultz:

Why not apply trust for the community instead of limitations? I am a grammar picky person, stemming from being a poor uninterested student in public school to a completely changed viewpoint once I was in college and realizing I should study hard in all my subjects because I was paying good money to attend, and I hate wasting money. I worked hard to improve my ability to dialog and communicate as it is one of the most important and valuable skills to be had in life and it is mostly free leaving no excuse.

It bothers me that an otherwise fantastic site like Steam Community lacks a basic industry standard such as comment editing. Often, you can be in a rush and overlook proof reading or you spot something just as you hit the post button. I trust most people in this community are up front and honest and though there always are some few bad apples in every public endeavor, I strongly believe they are a minority and irrelevant.

I hope to see this issue properly addressed going forward. Btw, another thing I find very strange is that when typing comments if a word is misspelled, you will get squiggly lines to indicate it but the typical right click on the word or as in my case I press the windows context key, and corrections are offered. This behavior/feature is missing here. So, I suppose in the meantime I must write my posts in MS Word and copy/paste into steam.

Another suggestion is a preview feature to see how the comment(s) will look once submitted.

because the community has proven to be unreliable/ abusing tools whenever they can

[rollinshultz]

[quote=Zetikla

because the community has proven to be unreliable/ abusing tools whenever they can [/quote]

Do you have some percentage figures for that? Which btw, also makes a good case for eliminating the use of anonymous handles for actual names. Not allowing anonymous handles would go far to encouraging the community members to police themselves. Most problems on the internet are caused by people having the ability to hide behind a handle to practice dishonest and predatory behavior.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by rollinshultz:

[quote=Zetikla

because the community has proven to be unreliable/ abusing tools whenever they can

Do you have some percentage figures for that? Which btw, also makes a good case for eliminating the use of anonymous handles for actual names. Not allowing anonymous handles would go far to encouraging the community members to police themselves. Most problems on the internet are caused by people having the ability to hide behind a handle to practice dishonest and predatory behavior. [/quote]


and how exactly would you make sure people would use their real names and not nicknames?

unless you dont mind giving private businesses all your private info, which i personally do and many other people

and if you really think anonimity is the problem: oh believe me, many rude people are just as rude when they give their names to their opinions

[1900]

[quote=Zetikla

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10 years later..

[Katie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.