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By:
richard
Rank: Starfleet Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Postings: 32
From: Australia
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Is editing posts enabled for higher reputation?
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Currently editing posts is not enabled, that is the functionality I still need to work on, since it is in beta it is not a big deal, it'll take me about a week to add editing posts functionality, now I have a question for the community:
Should we allow the edition of the postings? - I mean, a question's meaning can change drastically if edited, or, if a "history" is available, what is the best way to implement such functionality?
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By:
richard
Rank: Starfleet Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Postings: 32
From: Australia
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editing works well for SO atleast - people comment on the question, the asker clarifies their question, and responders modify theirs.
You could show a history of changes, but that is a lot more work.
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That's my point. I've seen countless of times that a question in SO is "modified" and 60% of the answers relate to a subject that has changed so much that it does not make sense anymore.
In a perfect world, where everyone updated their responses to accommodate changes in the original question this would be desirable, I find this confusing in SO and sometimes plain misleading...
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By:
richard
Rank: Starfleet Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Postings: 32
From: Australia
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yeah and then an answer gets marked down because it is no longer relevant.
Still, I think the benefits outweigh this.
If you really want to avoid this atleast the question asker should be able to edit their post soon after in case of errors.
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Right, maybe give them a time window for changes... that would not be hard to implement and the SysAdmin, can always go and fix things for good in the worst case..
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