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I thought of a nice way to handle the modify function...
I've always found the concept of modifying posts a bit problematic, as it allows the original poster to revise history. While only one person has been known to abuse it (iceman/jamie/imacrazyguy/emotion/kiki/etc), it's always troubled me. But it is quite useful.
In the next version of this site, I hope to store all previous revisions of a post. Once a post is modified, there would be a link or icon showing that it was modified, and clicking it would show all previous versions of that post.
To prevent abuse, there would be a finite number of revisions a user could make over a period of time, and this amount would be gradually replenished.
This would also allow me to enable forum administrators to modify posts, because there would be a history of what the user originally said. And if someone posted something grossly inappropriate, forum administrators would be able to flag the original post as unreadable (by general users), submit a filtered appropriate post if necessary, and prevent the user from modifying the post again. If the forum administrator was acting inappropriately, there would the post history so another administrator could verify that their actions were appropriate.
I've always found the concept of modifying posts a bit problematic, as it allows the original poster to revise history. While only one person has been known to abuse it (iceman/jamie/imacrazyguy/emotion/kiki/etc), it's always troubled me. But it is quite useful.
In the next version of this site, I hope to store all previous revisions of a post. Once a post is modified, there would be a link or icon showing that it was modified, and clicking it would show all previous versions of that post.
To prevent abuse, there would be a finite number of revisions a user could make over a period of time, and this amount would be gradually replenished.
This would also allow me to enable forum administrators to modify posts, because there would be a history of what the user originally said. And if someone posted something grossly inappropriate, forum administrators would be able to flag the original post as unreadable (by general users), submit a filtered appropriate post if necessary, and prevent the user from modifying the post again. If the forum administrator was acting inappropriately, there would the post history so another administrator could verify that their actions were appropriate.
