On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:52 AM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [Chris Angelico] >> >> And then people wonder whether quoted text really aligns with the >> original post, whether "sort by post date/time" actually means what it >> says, and whether people have actually changed their stance while >> editing a post. No thank you. In accounting, git repositories, and >> mailing lists, you cannot edit the past - you can only post a >> follow-up. > > > It's common etiquette to clearly label your edits. That's why you'll see > people write "EDIT: I changed X, Y, and Z due to <this comment>".
Requires cooperation and discipline. You have no proof that someone didn't unintentionally (or even maliciously) change the content of the post to misrepresent someone. > Reddit can show how long ago a given post was edited (if it was at all) and > commenters can flag posts that were edited in a misleading way. There's also > no inherent reason a forum couldn't keep and expose the full history of edits > to each post. > Sure, it's possible to keep them all. It's not easy to adequately *show* them unless someone specifically says "show me the history". > It would be interesting if you could link to a specific edit so when some one > says "I don't understand X and you weren't clear about Z" you could edit your > post to clarify and link to the edit in a response saying "I edited my post > to clarify. Thanks!" > I've seen that. It tends to result in posts that say "I've edited my preceding post", which is just as spammy as a followup but still disrupts the conversation. Still can't see it as an advantage. Edits like that are great for something that's meant to be a lasting document. That's why a PEP can be edited, and it retains its full history. You can go back and look at everything. But the mailing list is a discussion forum, not a document showing the final state of a discussion. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
