TL0/1 can edit a post for up to 1 day (1440 minutes)
TL2 can edit a post for up to 30 days (43200 minutes)
These are the defaults.
You might also be able to turn the first post into a wiki, which I think would allow editing in perpetuity.
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That explains it. I should have set up the post edit time limit to “0” from the sounds of it. I don’t think I want to turn it into a wiki. As Merely Gifted said, maybe I can edit the header post? I’ll see if I can.
Thanks!
ETA; nope, can’t edit the header.
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Good idea; I tried and I don’t seem to be able to. LockeCJ says that there is a window for editing, which I didn’t realise. I knew there was a time limit for comments.
ETA; yeah, it’s the header post that I can’t edit. I’ll mull over some possibilities.
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Can a post/multiple posts be pinned? so they stay at the top? If that can be done, you could just keep pinning a new post to the top once the current one becomes ineditable.
Otherwise, you may hafta just keep replying to the posts of lists.
Can individual posts be tagged? Finding them would be easy.
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I don’t know if any of that is possible. I wonder about just posting updated lists in the comments; adding new miscreants to the list as they appear and making a new comment.
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Just musing, Dear Heart. I’m sure U’ll get an answer/s 
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I’ve decided to just post the updated list in the comments.
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Good on ya! 
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Perhaps you can convert the topic into a Wiki? Not sure if that is an option here.
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At this point I can’t make the original post into a Wiki, but I could copy, make it into a comment, and then make a Wiki. But that seems like a lot of trouble. At this point, I’ve just copied the original list and pasted it into a comment and added the new name and details.
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To be clear, the setting I was referring to was a global one. It applies to all posts across the site. I don’t believe you can adjust that yourself. The goal is to prevent people from editing posts long after the fact so that they can’t effectively change history. I was actually surprised about the 30-day window for TL2 and above.
I can make the first post into a wiki, with your permission.
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Thanks!
re the Wiki; I have no objections, but how easy will it be to edit? Does it show up here, in the Cafe?
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Let’s test it out here.
This is a wiki post now.
It should work just like an editable post, but now others can edit it as well…
Yes, I can edit this. Does it appear with the original post, or as a new post?
Same post, just like if you were editing a regular post within the 30 day window, although the history is public.
Can anybody edit this?
nosaj: let’s see… yep
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Here’s one that gets me all the time. I am not sure if this is a bug or a Discourse “feautre” but it drives me batty, and I don’t know the exact circustances that trigger it. But I think it’s approximately:
If a post has exactly one reply, and the reply is the post immediately following it, the first post does not show the “1 reply” indicator. The replying post still shows the “in reply to…” indicator with all the unfolding and jumping that you can do from that control but not the other way – the post and its reply display the explicit cross-linking features “upward”, but not “downward”.
This doesn’t seem to be the case if the post and reply are not contiguous or if the post has more than one reply.
An example from this thread. These three posts are all direct replies to each other:
I think that Discourse is trying to streamline the interface when there’s a direct back-and-forth between users by not cluttering it with too many controls, but since the “in reply to” indicators only show the username, if a user has posted lots of times in a thread it can be very unclear what another user is replying to without unfolding. And it’s completely unclear that a given post may have a reply unless you specifically check the subsequent post, possibly including having to unfold the “in reply to” in order to confirm that it is in fact a reply to the post in question. It’s pretty infuriating if you’re trying to follow a topic with lots of overlapping trains of thought.
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Yes!! And you have described it perfectly.
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There’s a setting to disable to “auto remove quote” part of that behaviour at least.
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