I quite understand the need for it, to stop people hogging a thread but I have come up against a, possibly unwanted, drawback to it.
In a long running thread about help for the elderly in France much of it has been concerned with the increasing dementia of my wife and how this is viewed, treated and helped in the French system.
There is a core of very helpful regulars in the thread, many of whom have urged me on several occasions to report progress for all to follow. But I have found that, when there are rapid changes to report, because of this rule, I am only able to edit a previous post. That is fine, it is all sequential and I flag that it is an Edit each time, but presumably no-one knows of these updates because, not being new posts, no-one is notified of them. Also they do not appear in the āUnread Postsā list.
Is there another way round this other than creating a blog which presumably would lose all the nearly 800 useful contributions so far?
Not true David. Iāve seen your thread come up in my unread list and I must say Iāve wondered why, as it seems not to have a new post. Now I understand why.
Like @SuePJ I posted amendments to the same initial post in the Tax Help 2022 topic rather than add to the posting trail and people were notified of the updatesā¦
@David_Spardo
I wonder if you have thought of simply clicking the X in the top box of the message telling you youāve posted ātoo oftenāā¦ (thus dismissing that message)
that removes the message and allows you to continueā¦
Itās worked for me in the pastā¦ on my France Daily threadā¦
Oh well as long as people who are interested are notified I suppose it doesnāt matter. Not sure I would choose to increase the number though, without checking again I reckon I made at least 6 edits over the last 2, which turned out to be very long, posts.
But I donāt know how you managed all those consecutive posts @billybutcher, before I started this thread I did a check and it wouldnāt allow me any more than 3 in a row.
@Stella Not sure what you meant at first but now I think I do. Iāll go back and check now, unless some kind person has made a reply to allow me anyway. Worth a go anyway.
Edit: just tried it and as before it wonāt allow me another and the box that tells me so does not have an X to click in it. Perhaps you are a mod too?
Iām not entirely serious about this, and it might not work, or be frowned upon anyway, but does the forum allow 2 members using the same email/ip/computer etc.? Now I come to think about it I did get her a separate email address to get into her Ameli account. Still didnāt work though, presumably because of the IP.
If so I could simply get Fran to join and get her to post in between mine now and again.
Of course I would be quite open that it was me.
But if it isnāt allowed, does that mean that a married couple in the same household cannot be members individually?
Hmmm, you might be right - I actually hadnāt thought of that but was āsureā from memory that the three posts limit was a soft limit - the forum did nag me to stop on the penultimate post above but let me complete it.
both Vanessa and I are separate members in the same household but we do have separate email addresses.
Two members using the same account (or one with two separate accounts) will raise a flag on the system for the attention of the Team IIRC
So if I use Franās, totally unused, gmail account I could post in her name between my own then? And no objections from the management? Not something I would do often but in the case above updates were required as requested several times in just a few days.
has made a reply to allow me anyway. Worth a go anyway. 
