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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 647297" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Posts are editable for 15 minutes. We had to impose the edit time limit a few years ago because spammers were pretending to be real people and then coming back weeks later to edit spam into their posts.</p><p></p><p>I truly do understand why people will find the retirement of the acronyms disruptive. I do too. difficult child has gone beyond "gift from God" to hold a special meaning that we all understand. Difficult child is generic and simply doesn't fit the definition that we all have in our hearts. I was never very comfortable with the phrase "perfect child" so I personally never chose to use it. I know many of you did and will find that change equally annoying.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately no one outside of our community would ever search for difficult child and if they search for p c they would be searching for something about a computer which has nothing to do with our community. If we continue to use these acronyms instead of words that will be understood by everyone we're never going to show up in search results. If we hope to be here 5 years from now we need to show up in search results because that's how struggling parents unaware of our community will find us.</p><p></p><p>I am very sorry for the disruption but retiring the acronyms is in the long term best interest of this community.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 647297, member: 1"] Posts are editable for 15 minutes. We had to impose the edit time limit a few years ago because spammers were pretending to be real people and then coming back weeks later to edit spam into their posts. I truly do understand why people will find the retirement of the acronyms disruptive. I do too. difficult child has gone beyond "gift from God" to hold a special meaning that we all understand. Difficult child is generic and simply doesn't fit the definition that we all have in our hearts. I was never very comfortable with the phrase "perfect child" so I personally never chose to use it. I know many of you did and will find that change equally annoying. Unfortunately no one outside of our community would ever search for difficult child and if they search for p c they would be searching for something about a computer which has nothing to do with our community. If we continue to use these acronyms instead of words that will be understood by everyone we're never going to show up in search results. If we hope to be here 5 years from now we need to show up in search results because that's how struggling parents unaware of our community will find us. I am very sorry for the disruption but retiring the acronyms is in the long term best interest of this community. [/QUOTE]
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