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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Why is editing/deleting old comments enabled?
Noticed a few times when deletion/editing of old comments resulted quite funny/annoying/baffling comment-threads.
Is there a special reason for this being enabled? |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1085 |
Quote: Quote:
If someone wants to "revise" a previous statement, that can easily be accomplished via a follow-up comment.
exactly. letting users edit past statements is an invitation for various malicious things.
why do you always focus on malicious things and ppl abusing everything?
99% of the users don't do anything malicious and don't abuse anything. just limit access to the crappy 1% (no edit/delete comment rights) and be done with it.
it's a bit of an american way of handling things. (and no that is not a compliment;) |
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assiduous
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2007
Posts: 343 |
Please let me know in advance as soon as you've decided to disable this feature so that I can delete my comments beforehand. alot of them are pertaining to emulation bugs and I was hoping that as emulators improve with time i would be able to update my comments. |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Quote: Please let me know in advance as soon as you've decided to disable this feature so that I can delete my comments beforehand. alot of them are pertaining to emulation bugs and I was hoping that as emulators improve with time i would be able to update my comments.
Solution A: add another comment stating that the bug was fixed
Solution B: add a comment to the Production Notes area - hopefully edit would be still enabled there (looking in the way of Perff)
Solution C: if noone added a comment after yours, it would be still editable (just as it is on the forum) - at least I think so |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
What about making comments replyable?
Like... you can respond to a comment or add a new one.
And when a response is given to a certain comment, that comment is not editable/deletable anymore.
In short: a comment can end up becoming a thread.
(For people who can read Dutch (or like to see what I mean without understanding what is said on the page): something like the frontpage of Tweakers (click a news item to see what I mean))
In the process, you can remove the link to the general forum ('discuss this ...'). |
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wreg
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 679 |
"Please put only comments on the actual release here. All further discussion belongs into the forum, and will be removed if posted here!"
those who cannot read, should perhaps not add comments!
if anyone is misusing it by replying and the it looks weird because the source is edited or deleted, it's their own fault
discussions belongs to the forum, you can quote your favourite comment and start a thread there if there is need for discussion... i'll always vote for a stricter censorship to actually delete all kind of discussions in the comments...
what you suggest might be a good approach though
see www.heise.de ( any older news entry, then 'Kommentare lesen') for another kind of tree-style discussion.
why does csdb not have this? is there some strange alien technology required for this?! ;)
i think we can satisfy most users, those pro-locking and those contra-locking:
1. we should leave comments editable, thats the way it is wanted, that's the way we are used to
2. perff could add a 'quote' button or 'start a discussion'-link besides every comment, there you can actually start a discussion on any comment, which will of course be created in the forum, where it belongs!
tree-style would be nice, so we have a tree-root as the entry and all discussions under there.
tree style discussion / tree structure forum |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1085 |
Quote:i'll always vote for a stricter censorship to actually delete all kind of discussions in the comments...
a moderator that gets a line like that out of his keyboard should receive a life-long ban on moderating anything.
start by moderating your own keyboard first, please. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086 |
burglar, loose moderation can get funny when rules are applied to only some persons :) |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
Oswald you are a born troublemaker and a dirty outlaw! No wonder you constanly get into trouble with the moderators, unlike the rest of us. :D |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1085 |
Quote: burglar, loose moderation can get funny when rules are applied to only some persons :)
ozzy, you're not helping your point of view with adding trollthreads here... you'll only piss off the censors...
anyway, ontopic question for the moderators: why is it so bad that some releasespecific discussions take place in the comments? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352 |
if those discussions were actually release specific, then it'd be ok i guess :) its just that they usually quickly spin off into something completely offtopic.
(however, back to the original question ... =P) |
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