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candyb - Jan 22, 2003 7:22:53 am PST #2863 of 10000
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2003 1:22:31 pm PST #2864 of 10000
brillig
Thank you for leaving off the limit. I posted a story chunk around midnight last and only spotted the typo half an hour ago. Was glad to fix it and not have that enshrined forever.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 22, 2003 2:52:43 pm PST #2865 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I think having no edit limit, but time-stamping the actual edits, as we do, is the ideal solution. You can't rewrite history without leaving a trace.
Wrod.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2003 3:10:39 pm PST #2866 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think the system as it stands works pretty well. I know I've corrected embarrassing typos days after the original post went up. Is the general consensus that it's good form to note the cause for an edit after the fact if it's content-based rather than typo/grammar-related?
Jon B. - Jan 22, 2003 3:25:25 pm PST #2867 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is the general consensus that it's good form to note the cause for an edit after the fact if it's content-based rather than typo/grammar-related?
"Good form" is how I'd put it. Just seems polite to me.
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2003 3:31:42 pm PST #2868 of 10000
brillig
Or people start whispering to each other, the way people used to when a person disappeared then showed up much slimmer. "Plastic surgery? Drugs? Hmmm..."
Cindy - Jan 22, 2003 3:40:06 pm PST #2869 of 10000
Nobody
Angus and Jon already convinced me, one page back.
Jon B. - Jan 22, 2003 5:07:51 pm PST #2870 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jengod's little stompie spree in COMM (just teasing Jen) made me think of a cool mod - An "Undelete" link that replaces the "Delete" link when a post is deleted. It would be Admin only, since if an admin deletes a post, we don't want the poster to be able to undelete it.
"But how can we retrieve deleted posts," you may ask yourself. "Isn't that a major modification?" Not if I understand the existing code correctly. Posts are never actually removed from the database. They're just marked as deleted and not displayed.
jengod - Jan 22, 2003 6:04:52 pm PST #2871 of 10000
I can hear you![/grinning]
Here are some totally uncalled for and mean and demanding feature requests:
• Automatic subscription transitions. When one natter thread dies, another is chosen. I'd love to automatically be sub'd to the new one. And maybe once you finish a closed thread (10000+) you're automatically unsubbed?
• A sub/unsub button/link at the top of all threads. So if I wander into say, the Due South thread, and I want to sub, I don't have to go ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE SET PROFILE LINK--it being so unbearably far away, you see.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2003 6:10:44 pm PST #2872 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No -- content is deleted when a post is deleted. Gone, bye bye, forever.
And although I coded it differently at the outset, Gud convinced me otherwise, and I stand by that.