I'd just like to put forth the suggestion that maybe having editing enabled in the EC Tunnel forum would be more beneficial for everyone - the staff, the server, and the players - than having it removed for whatever reason. I'm assuming there was a valid reason - perhaps someone was exploiting something we're unaware of, perhaps it caused other issues - but at the same time the use of the EC Tunnel forum on Project 1999 is integral to the community and even with editing enabled it was already underused.
This is just one more thing that makes it much more difficult to use, and I think the way it worked with editing enabled was much more in line with what I remember from using a live EverQuest server's trading forum back in '99 - '01. The way the P99 forums worked with editing enabled was flawless - editing didn't bump threads, it allowed for consolidation, and it allowed for real-time updating as players sold and obtained wares. No one was wasting their time sending other players PMs and waiting anxiously for a reply about things that had already been sold. No one was wasting their time replying to these PMs, because they could just simply edit sold items out of their threads when they sold them.
It just seems unlikely that by removing the ability to edit there is some other pressing issue that's being addressed, which happens to be more important than all of the other useful things that were being provided to the playerbase.
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