On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 09:16:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
One possibility is to have the forum software delay actually
posting it for 5 minutes, and you can have second thoughts.
That's actually an interesting idea.
Some places on the web (e.g. StackOverflow comments) only allow
you to edit your posts/comments a few minutes after posting them,
so a design such as the following would hopefully be less alien:
1. Upon posting from the web interface, save the post and make it
immediately viewable to all web interface users (which is the
majority).
2. Allow the user to edit or delete their post during a grace
period (e.g. 5 minutes).
3. Once the grace period expires, send the final version off to
NNTP/mailing lists.
Could be configurable (on by default), too. Would require some
internal restructuring, and adding additional validation for
things currently taken care of by the NNTP server, but seems
certainly doable.
