New restriction: users cannot edit posts after 1 hour Options

[Jan S.]

We have had a number of episodes where some member decides to delete all his posts by removing the content. This can often deface threads as there is now parts of the discussion missing and we end up having to spend a lot of time cleaning up.
To avoid this regular members can now only edit their posts in the first hour. Developers can still edit their own posts without restrictions.

[klonuo]

Sticky in "Site Related Discussion" forum is not something regular user reads, but can be discovered as I did

Editing own posts should be considered as helpful to forum maintainers/owners and general users, as I don't see it as malicious act, which is mostly discussed here ("guilty until proven innocent" ). On contrary, I can imagine that some posts could be more perceptible if users would not have this restriction. After all, it's clear when post is edited by appended line in that post, history of changes can be tracked at administrator side (I believe), but also even by end-user with RSS.

Is there other forum out there with this philosophy?

I don't believe much that I can change this, as I'm just a user and it's older than me, and going back to previous state is just something no one does, but IMHO it's backward step which makes more troubles than solves trouble.
Perhaps you know best

[Zarggg]

After all, it's clear when post is edited by appended line in that post, history of changes can be tracked at administrator side (I believe), but also even by end-user with RSS.

I cannot speak specifically to this forum, but in general, most forum databases do not store a "history of changes" like MediaWiki does without being specifically modified to do so. It's just not part of the forum software paradigm. To prevent an exponentially increasing database size, only the "current" text of a given post is stored.

[Soap]

I love the feature. The is nothing more frustrating as a moderator than a poster who retracts statements through malice or not.

The frustration of trying to repair a thread maliciously broken is self evident. But there is also the more subtle problem of the non-malicious edit which breaks the flow of a conversation, if not context itself. On a board where there is an expectation that users search before posting there needs to be assurance that conversations remain intact.

This one IP Board feature alone has made me want to move Rockbox away from SMF.

This post has been edited by Soap: Nov 10 2010, 22:38