22 Apr
2008
22 Apr
'08
11:12 p.m.
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Forrest, thanks for the feedback :-)
...and most other forum apps out there allow users to edit their posts
nowadays...
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
I think that by not giving a user an easy way to
edit their post, it could
actually lead to a greater chance of abuse. Your suggestion for how to
correct spelling errors enables a user to edit anyone's post (not just
their
own). I know it would be very hard to take the object edition out, as it
seems to be in the xwiki engine itself.
I basically agree with you. The issue here is about "Bulletin Board
Philosophy" - if I may ;-) Here are the options :
- a post is something definitive that was said at the time it was
said. Though his / her author might want to edit it afterwards, it reflects
something about him / her and the state of the discussion at that point of
time. Therefore the discussion shall not be changed afterwards, even for
"cosmetic" issues such as spelling -> if someone doesn't want to take
the
time to write without spelling mistakes it says something about him / her
- a post is a piece of information posted by someone who meant
something that might or might not have been reflected properly in the post.
Therefore an author should be allowed to edit any of his posts afterwards to
change it.
Notwithstanding all that BS, I think the best thing to do is to provide the
edit feature and tell people that it is a bad practice to use it to alter
the overall meaning of the discussion.