Make an edited post register as new content

[matt_turpin]

The general rule for most forums, including my own, is to edit your post rather than double post. Today as admin I found myself double posting, because I needed everyone to know a certain post had new content, and editing my last post wouldn't trigger the change on the forum home. Does anyone know if it's possible, maybe via mod, to have the home page register a thread as unread content if (preferably just the last, but any is fine) post has been edited? I often find myself struggling to justify editing a post, because I'm fairly certain most of the time noone will see it. Most of you are admins yourselves, I imagine. How do you deal with this? Or do you even care? Maybe I just get too anal about stuff?Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Except for the last post, this would be very difficult to do (and marking a thread as unread when another post then the last one will probably only cause confusion).

Problem is that vB uses the time of the post in many ways:
- To sort the posts within a thread (changing the time of a post in the middle of the thread, would also move the post to a different location within the thread).
- Depending on the settings also to determine if there is an unread post in the thread.

[matt_turpin]

Doubleposting and then immediately merging seems to do the trick. We're a small community that has little potential to get large by nature, so I gave everyone the permissions to essentially be self moderators (can do anything to their own creations). It's easy enough to revoke if it gets out of hand, and it'll hopefully keep the forums tidy while letting people continue existing threads they were the last poster in.