schmatzler wrote:I believe the latest versions of phpBB keep an edit history, so if someone deletes all characters from a post, the post is still […]
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brostenen wrote:Then how about just restoring the posts that were deleted, locking them and issuing a warning? Vogons do have a dual database backup system like facebook right?
I believe the latest versions of phpBB keep an edit history, so if someone deletes all characters from a post, the post is still there in it's original form for the moderators to see. Correct me if I'm wrong. 🤣
Time-based edits are instated almost everywhere. I run a few forums myself and find them rather useful, because when a forum exists, there is also always drama. And drama results in people doing these kind of things.
But even without drama, sometimes someone just wants to leave and remove all of their history for some kind of reason. Which is - of course - often destroying the context of a thread and shouldn't be allowed.
On one of my forums I have made a modification to allow specific posts to be edited indefinitely by it's creator. It's just a checkbox the moderators can make on the post. Maybe that would be a compromise here.
Shure... Time based just sucks for me. English is my second language, and because of the way my mind works, I often think 4 or 5 sentences ahead. So in order for me to actually make myself 100% clear on what I am trying to say, I need to edit a post, like a lot of times. Don't worry, it's nothing bad, only a diagnose of aspergers syndome in a mild degree. Not that I am a raging psychopath or something like that. 🤣
It's just... Sometimes I really miss a lot of important information in a post, and to not eighter have people read it as an insult, or not miss informations. Then I really are dependent on a edit button. I don't want to stand out as the forum clown. Been there too many times in real life, when people are getting tired of my long sentences or I just speak the living crap out of someone.
On the other side... Yeah... I see why time-based edit button can be usefull in some cases. I see ups and downs in every cases. If a time based edit button will be the way it returns, then a something like that soundblaster drivers tread, will be killed. Updates are allways in the first post in that tread. In that context, this forum will loose something valueable. And if you have to write the mod's every time, you are not really in charge of your own tread anymore.
Time based on the other hand, will introduce pre-emptive shields from people deleting old information. Actually it will give mod's more time to do something else. Though as I am now told, old information can be retrieved or reinstated. It all comes down to what the forum mod's are willing to do regarding work load.
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