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| Posted: 04:46am 16 Feb 2022 |
As far as not being able to edit your posts, that only happens after someone replies to your post. You can edit your post(s), up until someone replies, then you cannot.
The reason for this has been explained in the past, but you may not have been a member at that time. It is so that posters cannot go back and edit what they posted, if someone takes them to task on something written.
In a lot of other forums, you CAN edit your post after someone replies to it, and it leads to all kinds of flame wars, as you end up with situations where someone will say something like: "The sky is orange.", then someone will correct that, then the OP goes back and edits the post to say: "The sky is blue." - then proceed to attack the person who replied with the correction, calling them liars etc, when the OP has actually changed the post to reflect the correction, then starts name-calling the person who posted the correction.
I personally think this system as used here, is a good one - you can always post a follow-up post agreeing with someone if they correct you and you agree with it.
Images are another matter, and I also have issues with some images - mainly schematics. Circuit diagram images in either JPG or GIF come out fuzzy. The JPG format makes them fuzzy by itself, and the forum software seems to squeeze the GIF format which makes them fuzzy also. Ordinary pictures usually come out fine provided they are of a suitable size.