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I wrote about all of those public opinion polls showing huge numbers of voters not trusting the election results yet at the same time telling pollsters that they believed *their own* vote was counted correctly. I thought that this showed that most people might not be that sincere in their belief that the election was stolen and might not believe strongly enough to act on it.

This was before the Capitol attack.

After that happened, I felt like maybe I had downplayed the threat that the country faces from some of these extremist groups by some of the language I used in the post. So, rather than edit the text, I wrote a response to myself through another post. I also added a "disclaimer" to the top of the first post much like you'd see a publication like the New York Times do when they make a correction or update to one of their stories.

Not sure if that was the right way to go, but I just followed what I had seen reputable news orgs do. Here is the first post: https://americanagreement.substack.com/p/questioning-the-elections-legitimacy

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That sounds like a reasonable way to deal with that kind of situation. I heard a few podcasts shortly after the storming of the Capitol add a disclaimer along the lines of "This podcast was recorded before the events of Wednesday, January 6. We will address these events in our next podcast." And then they did address the events in the next podcast.. I suppose that, when the issue is non-technical, it's best to go with the explicit update or disclaimer as well as a follow-up post that will reach the people who read the emails rather than the website.

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Good approach for a big change. I'm tempted to go in and tweak, like I do on my blog. I'll just try to do a better pre-posting check.

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I tried to edit something and it said Post out of date? It hasn't been a week yet. What does this mean?

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Did you ever Get an answer to this? Happnd 2 m now

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Me too, can't find anything written on it

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OK this just owrked for me. Not sure if it was a fluke.

Instead of getting to the original post through my main page or dashboard, I copied the "secret link anyone can view" and pasted the url . It took me to the same post, but now I could edit it.

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Oh hey, fancy seeing you here. I got this same problem when I was making bulk changes and it went away when I tried again. Seems like it was a fluke.

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I was just having this problem. I tried reloading the webpage (my posts page) by clicking the 'arrow circle' to the left of the web address bar, and then I was able to update/edit the post. I hope this helps. God bless.

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I did it, it helped, thanks!

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Thanks Joe!! Pretty much just worked for me.

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Just had the same problem : i refreshed the page as Joe suggested and it worked.

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I just got it, too. I found that waiting a few seconds, then clicking the "Update" button again (no page refresh) worked. Acts like a timing glitch in their code.

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This just happened to me. I found a solution (for me at least) that I hope works for other people. I tried to publish again and the error message was the same. So I refreshed the page and voila, I was able to hit publish and it worked.

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I believe it may be because you have the window open for edit for too long of a period. Try shorter edits.

OR

Write your changes off line. Then copy and paste.

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I think that's wise and a good approach! I've done it over and over again.. It's sort of endless as your writing will continue to improve day after day. Bit by bit. Your writing isn't the same as it was a couple of months ago. I believe this way, the aim for perfection gets in the way of improvement. Better focus on something new, improving it, making it better than you thought you could. It's the probably the best you could deliver in that moment. In some ways there is beauty in that. To be able to see the learning curve. Thanks for writing this!

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