On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 at 10:56 +0000, Lane, Ryan wrote:
I personally don't understand the reasoning to want to edit other people's posts. Can you give an example of a good reason to edit someone's post?
It's usefull to add line feed inside a mail to answer a specific question. In wiki this can be used to obfuscate thread but it's more often correctly used.
Truthfully, I think its more of a detriment than a benefit to be able to edit someone's posts. I can think of a ton of bad reasons to edit another persons post, but very very few good reasons.
It would be MUCH better to have a system where the user making the post allowed/disallowed people to edit their posts. If I'm signing my posts, I don't want someone to edit it to change my opinion to side with theirs. For instance, if this email were a part of a thread in a forum, you could change it to make it look like I side with your argument, and most people wouldn't notice.
We have history to catch such behavior, w/o history I'll agree with you. Also what about vandalism, spam etc. A feature to disable edit of comments means than some sort of user (sysop ?) must be able to edit/remove other comments, not a good idea to give more work to sysops. It'll also raise the problem of giving more power to sysops, seeing some flame war about sysops power I doubt allowing only them to edit comments will be welcome.
Philippe Elie