editing....our posts

waves · 03-24-2007, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by kimmydawn

How about we sit with this for a few months, then revisit it... ?

Kimmy: I could go for THAT - very sensible. emmm, but... any chance we could do do this "test-drive" directly with the 24-hr time limit that bizi proposed? .... if 24 sounds hours is too much, ehhh... howabout 23:95 ooops lol i mean, 23:59? lol. anyway thanks.

Now, if we do a trial run with restricted editing... a poll would follow, right? (say yes, yes yes?)

Mari: re voting ... i do think voting would produce a flagrantly flying "i want unlimited editing," at least for now, it seems the fastest easiest way to stop a bad forum problem. DocJohn explains in this forum feedback thread:

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Originally Posted by DocJohn

[...] We have changed this from "unlimited" time to 12 hours because a few members have been abusing this privilege to 'change history' in controversial threads, or threads where things have gone in a direction the member didn't care for. It was creating very difficult and time consuming moderation situations where a post was reported for an issue, but then changed or removed by the original poster to make it look like there was no issue. Or a moderator would go in and remove something inconsistent with our community guidelines, only to find the poster goes back and changes it back later on. And so on. The Community Team can't do their job here if the floor keeps moving under their feet.

When some members abuse the privilege, we have to take action to stop threads from becoming nonsensical or inconsistent with the community guidelines. An online thread is a conversation or a discussion that occurs at a specific time in a specific place. [...]

See. we all pay for the misbehaviour of a a few. But since the problem is an insidious one, an umbrella-policy seems the only immediate resolution. Basically because admin/mods are NOT 12-eyed polyps with a couple hundred tentacles (lol). they each have two eyes and two hands.

Fwiw, last night i wrote a bunch to a member of the support team, about how we might be able to automate some of the work involved to maintain a "clean" forum" in a way that wouldn't need to affect our edit time.

... my idea DOES requires technical verification, and then some TIME to implement, but it could eventually be adopted instead of the limited trial run, if that doesn't fly. I have not heard back on this yet - whether it is possible even - but i just wanted to share that i see other possibilities... but rome wasn't built in a day, and meanwhile we at least need a tent, a lean-to, a run-for-cover.

Take care.

~ waves ~
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