In their rush to comment on an exciting post, people are not proof-reading their entries before they hit the Post It button, sometimes including grammar and spelling mistakes.
To allow users to edit their own comments they would need to register and login to the site. I don’t think you’d need to login everytime you visit; and you’ll still be able to post comments if you don’t register, you just won’t be able to edit them.
registering is for newbs. read yer damn comment before you post it if you want to edit it.
have you ever read any of my comments. all i write are typos. though, i suppose, it’s no big deal.
The yellow in that poll brings out the yellow in my eyes, don’t you think?
As I expected, the poll results are indecisive; and we’re in dangering of bringing down the poll’s server due to the overwhelming response. I’m leaning towards keeping things how they are; that is, comment editing won’t be enabled.
WordPress should throw in a cookie saying I wrote this very comment, so that I can edit it – without having to register for anything.
I considered implementing something like that myself, but it wouldn’t be secure if the computer was a public one; the user would need someway to logoff to ensure some random person couldn’t edit their comments.
Can you register me so I can change my vote?