Hi,
I understand the purpose of this rule.
But the thing is that it's not totally fair for 2 reasons:
1)It's very hard to remember it when you do not post on a regular basis, and participate
only in a few threads.
2)The stats of the thread title are not changed when you edit it, only the message ones are.
For the first point, on a forum that seems to have gone (desync) I think the merging of the last posts from the same user in one single thread was automatic. Meaning no double post ever existed there. I don't know if such a function exists or is possible here. If yes, then that could be a good idea, provided it's not too demanding.
For the second point:
I'll quote someone on another topic:
Ok the volume stats keep updating if you edit your last participation.the first post on a thread doesn't draw people as much as the sheer volume of people viewing and participating in the thread draws in newcomers.
The thing is that for someone wandering around the forum where the thread is, even if you make additions to the thread, it's impossible to know since nothing as changed!
I don't know if there"s something to do about it, I do not ask for the thread to bump up, as the multiposting rule is set to prevent that (and have better readability).
But at least having the time of the last edit updated in the title... of even pushing to having the thread going to unread (but not bumping up) would be nice. That's meant for the last post of a thread of course.
otherwise there's no point in editing the last post of a thread...
C u
Edit 1: Just to show how it works
Edit 2: The edit of 9:06 and that one does not impact anything on the thread title
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