Oh, and for what it's worth, most BBCode message systems allow unlimited edits, sometimes with a flag that a message has been edited, sometimes not. I've never seen anything I'd consider real abuse that way, though occasionally there's a little confusion when people like me (I tend to edit a couple of times, for a couple of minutes) get replied to very quickly.On one message board I'm on (NeoGAF), a moderator was called out on calling other people liars*, which the moderator then denied having ever done, and was subsequently caught going back and editing posts months or years old, and removing "lie/liar/lying" from their old posts. They were stripped of their moderator privileges for that.
- We really mean we will be tracking how this is used; please do not be that guy who tries to do something stunty or manipulative with editing, because that will just piss us off and turn you into that guy who got banned for screwing around with Metafilter.Why not allow people to view prior edits, as well as an 'edited' marker like reddit has?
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}, 1E3)Just think of it this way: the originals will all continue to exist in the database, so we're mostly just creating a sort of many-worlds alternate dimension thing in practice here.I think my reaction is about 90% plain old human aversion to change and 10% concern that it may somehow subtly affect the flavor of interaction on the site, just because it's a pretty fundamental change. But MeFites are a pretty smart and mature bunch as a whole and I know the mods will be keeping a close eye on things, so it's all good.
Now I'm picturing a mod grabbing someone's arm and forcibly making them click the 'ban' button while yelling in their face "Why are you banning yourself!? Why are you banning yourself!?"That is why I almost never post in MeTa anymore.
posted by supercres at 2:03 PM on October 1, 2012 [30 favorites]