Feature Request: explicit non-ninja editing...
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I've been "raised"/trained by wikipedia to own up to my own past actions. So now i expect a history and "diff" for most of my edits... While i understand why it's better to merge multiple minor edits into only one version, i would also like to have someplace that i could sometimes check to mark the edit i'm making as "trackable", even if it's within the time limit associated with a "ninja edit".
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Perhaps it could be done by adding an edit message to your edit. Right now, those edit messages just go nowhere if it's within five minutes of the post.
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Good point. Though it has such a low discoverability that i've completely forgot about it. :-|
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The default grace period for edits is 5 minutes.
If you want to indicate an explicit edit within the grace period, perhaps do it the old fashioned way, by entering "edited:" in the text.
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Being able to ninja-edit is a good thing. Too often you spot something wrong just after you've hit Reply; a quick ninja-edit and it's sorted. Or you post something and then go off looking for the link to back it up; the web's pretty quick now, so you can get that link in there with a fairly high probability.
Filed under: unless it's to tvtropes
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Being able to ninja-edit is a good thing.
I never said it isn't. But the feature request is about a check-box (similar to wikipedia's "minor edit") that instructs the software to ignore the short time-span elapsed and save a second entry anyway.
If you want to indicate an explicit edit within the grace period, perhaps do it the old fashioned way, by entering "edited:" in the text.
Okay, i guess i could do that, but it's not very easy to indicate changes and removals... :-|
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Well, html has <ins> and
<del>
