On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:07:16AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org said:
- also, to fix typos :)
So, I will say this is kind of a peeve of mine about server-based discussion systems (whether web or client like Slack/Discord): allowing people to edit messages, especially after people have replied to them, is a bad idea. Person 1 says "we should do XYZ", somebody replies "no XYZ is bad", and person 1 can go change their original message to say something completely different.
Do you mean maliciously? In that case, it's a matter of asking people to not do that.
Or do you mean that it makes the history of the conversation confusing? The history _is_ there — edited posts are marked as such and you can see the changes.
I think in many cases it's fine for edited posts to reflect an updated understanding. If I post something and later realize I was confused, and so fix it, in a year no one will care about the initial mistake and it's more useful to have a "clean" post. (And any replies telling me I was wrong can be deleted, having served their purpose.)
Of course, that kind of "timeline edit" isn't appropriate for something that's a big decision or where the hashing-it-out _matters_. But it's very useful for posts like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-strategy-2028-a-topic-index-fo...