Why Admin Can't Edit it's Member's Posts

[disneyduniya]

Hi, I was in a lil trouble, I want to edit few posts made by my website's users but I don't see this option. Can someone explain me the way?
This is needed to check and correct the errors that a user may make while posting on my website.

Thankyou.

[GregChapman]

disneyduniya wrote

Hi, I was in a lil trouble, I want to edit few posts made by my website's users but I don't see this option. Can someone explain me the way?

There is no way to edit other people's posts.

I have an approach that works on a MIXED forum but doesn't on other applications (and seems to me to be a bug, but perhaps I don't understand how it is meant to work!).

On a MIXED application I will create a sub-forum and then set its permissions so "anyone" may not view it, create or reply to topics (That's probably overkill and only the "not view" is sufficient). I allow "Administrators" to create and reply to topics. Such a forum even disappears from the "Main Page" view of an Admin user, but is accessible via a Permalink URL or OPTIONS > STRUCTURE > MANAGE SUBCATEGORIES.

You can then move a post to the hidden sub-forum, reply to it, quote the original message, edit the contents of the quote and add your administrators comment on why the edit had been made. Then move your reply back to the original forum. This method has the advantage of retaining the original post unedited so makes it easy to restore should that ever be necessary or you ever need to refer to the original text, so is probably a preferable technique to editing the original post.

On a forum application preventing "anyone" from viewing a sub-forum doesn't work! That's what appears to me to be a serious bug!

[mywaytoo]

I have 2 user names... Me as Admin, and Me as an ordinary Member, so that I can test things out.

However, I do forget which one I am logged in as sometimes. The other day I wrote a couple of posts as Member, but I wanted them to be from Admin. I changed the login from Member to Admin... and, much to my surprise, 'it' changed the user from Member to Admin, which is what I wanted.

I don't know whether it would change things back, ie. from Admin to Member???
Not sure if it was supposed to do it in the first place...

[disneyduniya]

Thanx For both interesting answers... Those were a clever but a bit complex task and it can not be a good option for someone who moderate the forum posts...