Edit History Broken
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Continuing the discussion from Poll: How do you use the forum software?:
Is the edit history thing broken for anyone else? It doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it.
Same happens for me. Clicking on the red edit icon does nothing.
Using Chrome version ∞.
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Same happens for me. Clicking on the red edit icon does nothing.
This is by design imo, @dhromed and @PJH made the call that edits should no longer be public.
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This is by design imo, @dhromed and @PJH made the call that edits should no longer be public.
Ahhh, ok. Do you plan on showing a message when someone tries to click it, or just leave it as is with the cursor: hand/pointer style removed (I do like that change)?
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Yeah, that thing should not be a cursor here, its confusing.
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edits should no longer be public
@dhromed, @PJH. Disagree! It has been mentioned before, with not a lot of comment because it worked then, that if a user likes a post, then the post is edited to say something completely different, that change should be visible.
Filed under: And now for something completely different.
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It is still visible to mods and you have the ability to flag....
I guess the question is, do you want users snooping on other users or do you want mods doing this?
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It is still visible to mods and you have the ability to flag....
I guess the question is, do you want users snooping on other users or do you want mods doing this?
I wouldn't say that it's snooping. It's text that a user put out in the public.
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I'd assume this was/should be site dependent rather than anything else?
Other places make the edit history available from a sense of bullshit prevention (or liking something, then it being edited to snipe those likes to something else) so I'd assume it could be optional per community and in the context of this community I'd prefer it to be on.
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It's text that a user put out in the public.
Trouble is ... "passwords", we are missing a nuke revision option, but there is also a philosophical argument here.
BoingBoing were really against visible edit history ... NOT FAIR NOT YOU CAN SEE MY CRAPPY TYPOS
I'd assume this was/should be site dependent rather than anything else?
Completely a site setting.
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So, nuke revision should be a thing. Other than that, you're good to go and in this forum we're already aware of stuff being public in the first place, so it should all be good really to reinstate edit history here ;)
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I think @dhromed was against public edit history regardless of the missing nuke revision option.
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I can understand that. I'm merely pointing out that I am for it and why I'm for it.
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I think @dhromed was against public edit history regardless of the missing nuke revision option.
NUKE_BY_DEFAULT
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YOU CAN SEE MY CRAPPY TYPOS
We all make typos, including me. WAG, half the edits I've made here, ninja and otherwise, are to fix typos, grammar, etc. BFD; I don't care if people see that I've fixed them. Heck, I'd rather they see that I fixed a typo than wonder if I sneakily changed the meaning of my post.
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Trouble is ... "passwords", we are missing a nuke revision option, but there is also a philosophical argument here.
Why not have a moderator delete the whole post? If you posted a password on a public forum, it's not like editing it out will undo that fact.
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Already suggested that, they had other reasons, just wait for them to reply.
btw how is import going?
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I put the virtualbox process on background priority until that pull request I made goes through because it was hard to play games with no disk access.
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until that pull request I made goes through because it was hard to play games with no disk access.
That needs to be changed a bit, pass that in via opts otherwise too magic.
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Why not have a moderator delete the whole post?
Already suggested. But then again, posts cannot be deleted, only hidden....
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Call me crazy, but would it not be possible to measure the severity of a change? If you diff the original against the edited version, you should get some indication of how large the change was. So, don't show small changes, but if there has been a major change, then enable edit history.
To mitigate the ability to game the system by doing 10 small edits instead of one big one, there could also be a threshold on number of edits, for example, if more than 5 edits were made, show the history.
Now, I know there are still caveats (if someone inserted a word, was that just a grammar fix or did the author add a "not" and flipped the meaning of the post?), but it's a start.
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If you diff the original against the edited version, you should get some indication of how large the change was.
I've seen a couple of characters change to one of my FAQ's result in a change that looks as if I'd changed 3/4 the article.
That would need fixing first for this to be even a viable idea....
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Ouch. Ok, in that case, yeah, much work to be done before even considering my suggestion then.
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True, there is no nuke button
Regarding edit window changes. Can you confirm this does not break wiki, not sure if we have a bypass
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Can you confirm this does not break wiki
Still seems to work.
Shouldn't wiki's have an exception to hiding edits from non-staff as well? Or at least as an option...
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Wiki edits should always be visible. If not it's a bug we will fix quickly
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It's like a normal post at the moment - the pencil's there with number of edits, but it's not clickable.
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I just fixed the issue regarding the wiki post not showing the edit history
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