Posted by Dinah on November 24, 2009, at 12:54:32
In reply to Re: editing posts after submission, posted by Nadezda on November 24, 2009, at 10:43:41
My suggestion does the same thing, while preserving the ability to test reality.
If the objections are the PBC's, it would do the job just as well. Perhaps even better.
Why the investment in having the original post disappear entirely? One thing that always set Babble apart from its competition is that threads don't get disappeared and posts don't change. For some people that's good, some people that's bad. But why take away the one place where people who find it a good thing can be in peace, at least on that point?
The posts won't be on the main board, people can still avoid a PBC, and it can even be used by those concerned about privacy and google. And it's not crazymaking. Whether people who post something, regret it, and change it after others have seen it are trying to be crazymaking or not, it is still crazymaking. Or maybe I am the crazy one for feeling that way.
What harm can it do to leave a link to the original?
I don't actually think much of a place where an administrator presents things as a fait accompli. It's not all that different from doing it before announcing it, but with the added disadvantage of frustration in having a chance to speak but no chance to be heard and have things change.
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