How does posting or editing posts / messages in the messages function work?

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

I meant to remove something I felt was too personal by editing it, but instead sent a new message.

 

What would be a better way to deal with that?

[Treamayne]

48 minutes ago, Booknewt said:

I meant to remove something I felt was too personal by editing it, but instead sent a new message.

 

What would be a better way to deal with that?

The Sharder FAQ has a whole section on editing posts (copied below as well - though the whole FAQ is worth a read). In Private messages, most of teh same it true - and if edited before the message has been read, they  will only see the final version. I amunsure how much of this applies to SUs. 

Spoiler

EDITING POSTS

• Use the Edit link (three dot menu) to make changes to a completed post or add information to your post if it is the most recent post in the thread (to avoid double posting)
  • Quote buttons will still send a quote to "Reply" section if you have a post open for edit, but it is easy to cut/paste the quote to the Edit box
  • Editing the first post in a thread allows the thread-creator to edit the thread title (important for changing accidental spoilers)
  • Editing allows you to add a reason for the edit (Spelling and grammar (SPAG), formatting, clarification, new information, etc.), but it is not required.
• Likes, Mentions and Quotes should all send an alert to the appropriate person (if they have that turned on) - even when added to an old post through the Edit feature.

Hope that helps