What does an observing / composing member to a Fluther question see during and after a response is edited?

From what I’ve seen, it looks like a stable answer until the screen is refreshed and I see the change.

Until your edit is committed:

1. They will not see that you are editing.
2. They will see the answer that you had pre-edit.

Being the inquisitive person that I am, I investigated this a while ago, using two different computers and another fluther account of mine [jaeger].

Apparantly you were editing while I was posting my answer in another thread, I saw your previous answer while I was composing.

Edited to add: I wish it would completely ‘pull’ my answer while I’m editing it, and only re-post it when I’m done with editing.

So the edit only shows up on a reload? That’s good to know.

I think it shows up only after you have clicked ‘Answer!’ on your edits. Until then, your previous answer shows.

It seems best to me that an answer stays where you originally placed it in sequence because the next reply may depend on it to make sense. If all you are doing is correcting a typo, it wouldn’t seem right to have to go to the end of the line.

Of course it’s not fair to change the content of something when someone has already replied. That’s why it is a nice courtesy to note ’[Edit]’ when you change a posting in an active thread.

You don’t know? Whos ass did you kiss?