On 03/24/2016 11:01 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
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.
FWIW I like to post and just see it there. On the rare occasions I make
a mistake that could make my post misunderstood I cancel the message
within seconds and repost it with the fix. (BTW would be nice to have
the ability to cancel a message from the Web interface.) If we allow
post editing we should allow viewing the history. Generally it's not
something I've been missing. -- Andrei
