I can't edit my post

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#1

@bsj , You already have the editing option. Please click on the pencil icon next to the your post.
Can you please specify what do you want to edit ?

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#2

@Divvya_Saxena I don’t see the pencil icon to edit (it seems I don’t have editing rights), I have it on other Discourse forums but not here: see i.imgur .com/Iy0WAN8.png
(strangely I cannot post links nor images anymore! I could in my first post)

#3

@bsj ,Give us some time and we will get back to you.

#4

Hi @bsj - moving this to a new topic under Site Feedback. For brand new users we have disabled ability to edit your post – this is specifically to mitigate spam patterns we’ve experienced where spammers edit posts after they have passed the spam filter. Apologies for the frustrating experience – once you have graduated to Trust Level 1 you will gain the ability to edit your post. Let me know if you have any thoughts/feedback.

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#6

Thank you very much @thea for your answer.

For brand new users we have disabled ability to edit your post

Yes, this is quite frustrating indeed :slight_smile: 15 years ago it would have been quite normal (because this is how forums or newsgroup worked), but now that we are used to Discourse (I am member of a few) and StackOverflow (edit is possible even for new users), it looks quite strange, I even thought it was a bug… since it’s written nowhere “You cannot edit because you are a new user”.

IMHO making edits impossible for technical posts containing code (where it’s easy to make small mistakes) makes little sense. If I should make a new post in the same thread to say “I made a mistake in post #1 of … so please read line 126 with … instead of …” it is really a bad UX :wink:

My suggestions:

  • keep the EDIT button visible (so that we don’t search during minutes “Where is this EDIT button”?) but maybe disabled or with a tool tip “You cannot edit for now …” when mouse hovering on it

Also, can you please enable editing privileges for my account ? Also I cannot post links (strange because I could in my first post ever!), can you enable this ?

Thank you in advance.

#7

It would be a great feature if we could connect our StackOverflow accounts where we already discussed TF or Deep Learning topics to earn some points on this site and avoid having editing disabled

#8

Understand the frustration here. Unfortunately with Discourse we have limited ability to modify core UI elements without a lot of work. We could explore re-enabling this and keep an eye on the results.

I believe you were able to post a link to your first post because first posts are reviewed. Links from brand new users are, again, often a source of spam. We can look into enabling this anyhow and see if it becomes an issue.

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#9

That could be interesting – will look into this!

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#11

To follow up, I’ve re-enabled links and post edits for new users. We will keep an eye on whether this is a source a spam in the future and re-evaluate if so. Thanks for your feedback!

cc @Joana @Marcus for visibility.

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#13

Hello everyone,

Sorry if this is not the correct thread, but it was the closest one. This is the first using TensorFlow Forums (however, I have some other accounts on Discourse, so I am not exactly a novice).

I made a post some minutes ago, but I cannot see it, less edit it. How much time does it take to have a new post “approved”? In case my post is " not approved", will I get some notification? Is this a “normal behavior” on TF Forum?

BTW, of course I have checked the community guidelines and the FAQ, but no related info is to be found there.

Hope some of you guys can enlighten me with these queries.

Thank you.

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