It has come as a shock to me on more than one occasion that certain sections of PM behave a little differently from others with respect to the "Preview" mode. You hit submit, a little prematurely perhaps, but think nothing of it, until you can't find a way to edit your posting short of pestering a Saint.

If you are replying to a message, for instance, pressing "Submit" isn't really all that dangerous because you can always edit your posting later. However, if you submit something to a section directly, there is no going back unless you get some help from the editors.

It would be handy to include some sort of note below the buttons that indicate if this is a "Submit, but don't worry you can change it later" button, or a "Submit, and you better be darned sure about it" button.

This node, for example, cannot be edited by me directly.

Of course, if you know a bit about Everything you can always kick it into "Edit" mode for your node, but this seems a bit crazy.

In reply to Point of No Return (a.k.a. The Dangers of by tadman

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