Something I found working for myself when I wanted everyone to notice an edit/addition to the last post I made is copying the post, adding what I have to say, and then deleting the first one.
I don't double post that way and everyone gets the info about a new reply in their list - for me (myself), that's the solution I prefer.
If you edit a post (and you are the last post in a thread), the thread will reappear in "Watchlist" and "Show new replies to your posts" even if people read the previous version of the post. However, it will not bump the thread in the section overview.
This is, of course, if I'm not mistaken, but I'm 99.9% sure.
Didn't know about that. Good to know.
Thanks for the infos, I think both cases could not violate the rules then.
When adding a notice on top of the post about the update then it likely will be recognized as a post with new infos.
However, with a thread where only yourself is posting in it would not work to delete the post, since it would kill the thread in whole. And not all info can be put into one post then. For example posting info about a scammer investigation. Can be huge. Of course adding might alert some users, though many, I believe, only checks out the forums and will not see the thread anymore maybe then. If it is still on the page then it might have a "NEW" sign to it.
I'm not sure if the consecutive posting rule is mentioned on the forum officially somewhere so it might be good to know when a previously time banned account gets out of the risk zone of getting permabanned with the next ban. How long does it take?
I mean in case there are several unwritten rules and some users don't even would get a warning then it could happen fast that a permaban happens.
I was told there is a thread for unofficial rules here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0 but the consecutive posting is not mentioned I think. And that is not an official list. So even with that there might be rules a poster can unknowingly run into and get permabanned fast since it seems not everyone gets warned.
I think it might be good to make rules, that are so dangerous to an account, official then. At least the thread was opened by a staff member so it is somewhat official because of that though it seems still risky.
You know, at the moment I somewhat fear to go against another rule and being permabanned. And I hope I don't have to live my whole forum life now with the risk of another ban being my last. That the timeban gets forgotten and after that the next ban would be a timeban again first before it would become a permaban.
Just saying, I guess clear rules might be able to make the life of staff and moderators alot more easy. Other users could warn others by linking to the official rules, users being banned could check themselfes or being told by others about the specific rule they broke and mods and staff would have less work at all.