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.

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..."

Angus and Jon already convinced me, one page back.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

I love the second (yes! it is so far and so many pixels away! do not make my mouse click through to the Set Profile screen!) but am not sure about the first. It can be kind of desirous, I think, to stay subbed to inactive threads-- so I can use the "search only threads I'm subscribed to" option in the Search tool, when I'm not sure whether a particular Trudy quote is from Bitches One, Two, or Three. And I'm itchy, I guess, a little bit, about ever subbing people to things they didn't explicitly ask to be subbed to. A Subscribe/Unsubscribe link at the top of the page would make it easy to sign up for the new Natter-- but having it done for you automatically seems a little... over-much.

Btw? Can I say something? I love how when I ask it to mark a post for me, it doesn't reload with the marked post at the top, but instead the same posts displayed as there were a second ago. It's very neat and non-confusing for those of us who read with two windows open at the same time and the "Read New" button instead of the "Next".

The subscribe link request is on the list already.

RL, how would you feel about a modified version of jengod's first proposal -- say, if you weren't automatically unsubbed from the old thread but had to do the housecleaning yourself if you wanted, and you had to click on the Special Magic Link to get subbed to the new one (Note that I have no idea if such a link is even possible) rather than going straight through to it?

I'd love to be able to sub to new threads without having to go through the home page and then my profile, especially since I never even look at the home page but use the message center instead, and I only change my profile every few weeks.

And a much more do-able request wrt new threads -- can we reverse the order of the threads in the profile page so that new threads appear at the top of the page rather than the bottom? Now that the complete thread list is several screens long, it's getting to be more of a pain to get to the right checkbox.

Now that the complete thread list is several screens long, it's getting to be more of a pain to get to the right checkbox.

Hmm. I like it that way, since I have to be down there to click the button anyway. I just scoot to the end of the screen, check, click, move on. Otherwise you have to stop midway down the screen, and then again at the bottom.