In an effort to give better public transparency about what users are doing, users can now see exactly what was edited in a post if a user edits it. Rather annoying when a user edits something, but you have no idea what they changed. Especially in the marketplace area where sellers could do a "bait and switch". As an example, go to this thread (which has been edited), at the bottom you see the normal note about when it was last edited, but now you can click it to see what was changed and when. This is the same info that mods/admins could already see. BTW - you need to be a logged in user in order to compare/see post edit history.
Awesome feature! That will hopefully stop people opening up threads in the S&F section to make complaints about this. Nice one
Hey Shawn, it doesn't change anything. I still can't edit thread made on Sep. 15, 2007 Mods used to move my new one made last week. Where is the benefit for me and for thousands of other users in the same situation as myself? fastreplies
Yes it does... it changes the fact that before people couldn't see edits, and now they can. Where you expecting it to change something other than what was stated in the original post?
What edits are you talking about? How they can see something I can't edit? I can't change post I made on Sep. 15, 2007. Now can I? I want to edit this Announcement post http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=478293&p=4501372#post4501372 and edit/replace content with http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=478293&p=15881473#post15881473 Solicitation one I made on Mar. 4, 2011 fastreploes
For example: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2120252#post15930193 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/posthistory.php?p=15930193 Correct... this feature has nothing to do with being able to edit anything beyond what you were already able to edit.
Big fucking deal... who cares if I corrected some typos or made some cosmetic changes? Sure in Buy/Sell forums that sort of editing info might help to catch crooks but to have that option across all forums is nothing but useless exercise. fastreplies Edit: Now you have 5 copies of the same post, 4 of them edits, to keep your DB busy.
Believe it or not, this forum does not revolve around you, I'm sure there are hundreds of things that thousands of people use that you don't need/want/use. You don't use the most popular part of this site, should we remove that and stop making new features for it? lol If the new feature doesn't interest you, simply don't use it. {shrug}
Of course you shouldn't but what you should do is to stop treating people like some piece of shit, giving them infractions and messing up their threads if you can't accommodate their needs. fastreplies
We don't give people infractions for not being able to accomodate their needs. It only becomes related to being able to accomodate their needs when their needs breaks our rules. The reality is we can't accomodate the needs of everyone. Everyone's "needs" are different... some people's "needs" are to sell spam unlocked iPhones or VCC dumps. I assume it's the same with your site... if someone NEEDS to list their child porn site in your directory, what would you do to accomodate their needs?
You can't have it both ways. The reality is, it doesn't stopped you from making rule and then to give them infractions for something that is outside of their control. fastreplies
I suppose... if someone doesn't have the self control to stop themselves from breaking our rules then yeah... of course they would get an infraction. Believe it or not, there are a huge number of members with thousands of posts that never once got an infraction. They have the self control to refrain from breaking our rules I guess.
I never break any rules but that's never stopped Mods and you from giving me infractions. The last one, (even you can't tell me what I did wrong) given to me for Inappropriate Language. Wrong. Quoting you: they just never been cut. fastreplies
Nice to know info. I tend to re-edit the heck outta anything I write... a common failing of the pedantic types that edit for a living. Been known to rearrange the same paragraph in a meaningless thread until its just perfect. Realize that isnt what this tools there to catch, but it'd look dumb to see 5 post edits in some meaningless P&R discussion. I'll be more careful around here. Thx on the heads-up. ADDED: After posting this I found myself about to open it and re-edit where I used "meaningless" in two sentences. Force of habit. Dang, this is gonna be a hard habit to break.
Well if you edit it fairly quick, it's not going to log it... just FYI. I do a lot of edits too, but usually I make them within the 5 minute non-logging window. Edits made in the first 5 minutes after a post is made is exempt from logging for that exact reason. It's more for the people that come in hours later and change something after their initial post got responses. Plus I really don't think anyone is going to bother checking your edits unless you completely change what you said and they are confused now. lol
If you recall Laisha from a place we both edited once... she's sort of a memorable / irascible type (she's mellowed in her old age). She once made the mistake of posting a single line after one of my posts... "I agree with Rob"... without quoting my post. As her agreeing with me didn't happen a lot at the time I decided to have a bit of fun. Changed the post above hers to say something about her and farm animals and a romantic relationship of sorts. She never agreed with me without a quote after that. She's a quick learner.
What an excellent new feature, I'm sure it will prove most useful for all members to find out when their fellow users have edited a post. Nice work there, Shawn. Keep up the hard work and keep releasing new features for DP!