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2013-12-13 22:23
Didi

Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 487
Comment editing disabled

What's the reason for disabling this, please?
2013-12-13 22:30
hedning

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4731
Maybe people fuck up discussions by editing their old statements?
2013-12-13 22:31
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265
Prolly the recent trolling...

But surely there must be some other way to handle this. "Comment has been edited" is custom in e.g. phpbb.

Also logic could dictate that you cannot remove/edit comments that have had follow-up comments. Only the last comment should be editable. Wouldn't that work?
2013-12-13 22:32
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384
exactly. constant abuse of that edit feature has been a source for annoyance for long enough already.
2013-12-13 22:39
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265
So what about last-comment-only editing?

I don't care about locking things in the forums, but it's really working against you when doing preservation stuff, adding notes to releases. Many times I write what I know at the time, and then I may add a while later some refined info. I would hate to see this option go away. Hence I suggest last-comment-only editing. Don't you think this could work?
2013-12-13 22:45
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384
how does not being able to edit your comment prevent you from adding more info?
2013-12-13 22:48
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265
It doesn't prevent me from adding more, it prevents me from correcting/refining anything I've written. It's not a show stopper no, but the last-comment-only editing feature could solve things with little hassle.

Edit: I just realize I can edit a forum post but not a comment... what's up with that? O_o
2013-12-13 22:52
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384
in a forum thread you can edit your last post until someone else posted - which would be the only acceptable alternative in comments (but not solve your problem the way you think it should i guess)
2013-12-13 22:56
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 265
Well it would solve my problem, and I'm suggesting the exact same behavior for comments. Can we haz that? :)
2013-12-13 22:56
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
Hallelujah! It took you only 6 years to implement it. So maybe there's a slight hope for the tag system too? :)

Considering editing the comments, what about enabling editing for a short timespan (in case of ninja fixing typos/grammar errors) or letting the edit/deletion of the comments if it's the last one?

And it always baffles me why are the comments in a different order than the forum posts? Any specific reason for that?
2013-12-13 22:59
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384
personally i dont even have an explaination for why there are both comments AND a thread connected to each entry (both essentially used for the same thing) :) let alone for why they work differently =P
 
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