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