On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 01:29, Tobias Zwick <o...@westnordost.de> wrote:
[Reasonable points, so far] > 3. Moderation and Edits. > > 3.1 Edit: Every now and then, people derail verbally, it happens. We are > all humans. So, to be able to edit your post after you realized that you > shouldn't have said something inflammatory, abusive or stupid, is important. > That one is problematic. Well-meant, but problematic. It solves some problems but introduces others. The first problem is thread-detachment if somebody is allowed to delete a post or edit it to oblivion (which is pretty much the same thing). You may end up with a lot of replies that make little or no sense without the thing they're replying to. You can't automatically delete all the replies because some of those responses may have made useful contributions that stand alone. The second problem is malicious editing. Posting something then, after many have responded, editing your post to make the responses look stupid. I've seen that happen in similar systems. A history function would prevent that, but would also reveal stuff that people deleted for valid reasons and is best left unseen A partial, not very effective solution, is to not permit editing or deleting after a response has been made. That fixes some of the problems above but introduces others. It probably makes the situation slightly worse, overall. YouTube comments had it at one point but they no longer do. All the problems can be solved with more effort from moderators. Do we have enough people with enough spare time? What you propose might be better than the mailing list. Or it might not. We won't know unless we try it. I'm not sure you'll overcome the inertia to replace the mailing list and might end up partitioning the community. Worthy of consideration but I'm not entirely sold on the current incarnation of the idea. -- Paul
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