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HighlaneGamingStudio

ant3k5 wrote:
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ant3k5 wrote:
King of This Page 7!!!

You made TWO off-topic posts, and one of them was a necropost.

ant3k5

No, you can't. If you close your topic (or someone closes a topic you posted on), you can not edit your posts, it only shows “Report” without an “Edit” button. You cannot also rename to say “CLOSED”. It can only be done by ST members. Number of replies is the number of comments minus 1. So this is the 121st reply (not counting deleted posts), and I (didn't) turn into a cat because 40 turns into 39, and in 헙-style algorithm, King of 7th page turns into HighlaneGamingStudio (20 letters!!!) So I do no longer become the King because of necroposts. Now I no longer become a cat.

Willhelmianous

PhiPhenomenon wrote:
New Scratchers can also use this trick to edit their posts, even when they can't see the edit button.

I suppose one way you could solve that is to check if they're a Scratcher or not but that sounds legitimately useful and this hasn't been abused much.

Withered_Fredboi wrote:
This could become a private chatting system. yet ANOTHER big issue

How? Any edits you make are public, and you might mean that you could write some private information and then immediately remove it, but the edit feature doesn't change if you use the button or not, it will still have a delay and so that information is likely to still be seen. There is no way this could be abused in this way.

ImARealDogNow wrote:
Withered_Fredboi wrote:
This could become a private chatting system. yet ANOTHER big issue
Yea. As long as a user has the link, there's no way of preventing them. Reworking the entire reply editing code to remain on the same page could work, but certainly a long amount of time and also alot of dry bones glitches if rushed too quick…

To do that a POST request I assume would still need to be fired and that request could be manually submitted still, although this might work better. Currently you can create a post by staying on the same page so this is not an impossible idea, though it would take a long amount of time and large amount of effort to implement.

ImARealDogNow wrote:
This issue is basically still as big as the character limit of cloud variables, genuinely.
(Why is it that large? Who on earth would have more than 8 characters length of points or whatever? its not like cloud vars are used for that high amount…)

Encoding letters requires a lot of characters and so it is needed for that and 8 characters of numbers goes up to about 99,999,999 (almost 100 million) which for several games including clicker games would be very small if you have played any clicker game in the past. So reducing it to that wouldn't work. I can think of workarounds to this but still.

Willhelmianous

ant3k5 wrote:
No, you can't. If you close your topic (or someone closes a topic you posted on), you can not edit your posts, it only shows “Report” without an “Edit” button. You cannot also rename to say “CLOSED”. It can only be done by ST members. Number of replies is the number of comments minus 1. So this is the 121st reply (not counting deleted posts), and I (didn't) turn into a cat because 40 turns into 39, and in 헙-style algorithm, King of 7th page turns into HighlaneGamingStudio (20 letters!!!) So I do no longer become the King because of necroposts. Now I no longer become a cat.

You can, replicated here: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/discuss/post/8408484/.

NixonTopa1972

Knightbot63 wrote:
My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 112.0.0.0, No Flash versions detected
I wanted to try something since you can edit posts via the URL.
I did this with the April Fools topic and I am not sure if it's intentional or not.

This could lead to trouble but I am clearly not sure about that yet.

That usually shows a 403 error message, but when topics are closed, maybe you are no longer able to edit your posts.

ant3k5

Click on “Show my topics”.
Click on a gray link.
Scroll until you see your post. If you can't see your posts, move on to next page. Look at all people until you look at your profile pictures.

Then you don't see “Edit”. You also don't see “View source” to see what source code you wrote. You only get “Report”.

That's it. That's all of them.

NPLol39-2_

My browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Chrome 132.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
I was able to make it happen. Use the link above your profile picture, hover over it, copy the link into your search bar, then add “/edit” at the end.

Willhelmianous

ant3k5 wrote:
Click on “Show my topics”.
Click on a gray link.
Scroll until you see your post. If you can't see your posts, move on to next page. Look at all people until you look at your profile pictures.

Then you don't see “Edit”. You also don't see “View source” to see what source code you wrote. You only get “Report”.

That's it. That's all of them.

https://i.imgur.com/NbnO2h4.png

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