Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Forrest, thanks for the feedback :-) > > >> I think that by not giving a user an easy way to edit their post, it could >> actually lead to a greater chance of abuse. Your suggestion for how to >> correct spelling errors enables a user to edit anyone's post (not just >> their >> own). I know it would be very hard to take the object edition out, as it >> seems to be in the xwiki engine itself. >> > > I basically agree with you. The issue here is about "Bulletin Board > Philosophy" - if I may ;-) Here are the options : > > - a post is something definitive that was said at the time it was > said. Though his / her author might want to edit it afterwards, it reflects > something about him / her and the state of the discussion at that point of > time. Therefore the discussion shall not be changed afterwards, even for > "cosmetic" issues such as spelling -> if someone doesn't want to take the > time to write without spelling mistakes it says something about him / her > - a post is a piece of information posted by someone who meant > something that might or might not have been reflected properly in the post. > Therefore an author should be allowed to edit any of his posts afterwards > to > change it. > > Notwithstanding all that BS, I think the best thing to do is to provide the > edit feature and tell people that it is a bad practice to use it to alter > the overall meaning of the discussion. >
...and most other forum apps out there allow users to edit their posts nowadays... -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
