If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

A modification of the code which implements versioning for posts after editing has been installed. Please let me know if you experience any problems.

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Editing to add: I have made a post as a non-privileged user to check whether the mod worked, and it did. Board admins and moderators are now able to recover previous versions of edited posts made after the mod was installed.

About editing. It seems there is still a little bit of confusion, and some disagreement about allowing editing in places other than the endless thread. Perhaps you should run a poll, with, say, four options:

1. no editing
2. two minute window
3. five minute window
4. 15 minute window

Then, run the poll for a week or so, and see what the consensus is?

Or am I missing something -- that's always a possibility. I didn't know it, but apparently I am an idiot. Jutsi was kind enough to point that out to me on his blog. Well, forearmed is forwarned ... I mean, um, well, there you go. An idiot.

Here is a screenshot showing the history of a post that admins and mods can see:

http://gumbercules.com/post_edit_history.jpg

Lsuoma wrote:A modification of the code which implements versioning for posts after editing has been installed. Please let me know if you experience any problems.

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Editing to add: I have made a post as a non-privileged user to check whether the mod worked, and it did. Board admins and moderators are now able to recover previous versions of edited posts made after the mod was installed.

Will an edited post always show the original post with an addition below?... because I would have called that adding to a post rather than editing. I really don't mind if folks can add a correction to a post in as transparent way as that at all.

What happens is that the original version and the edited version of the posts show in their entirety as they were when the "Submit" button was clicked.

There's no easy or sensible way just to show the changes made.

Lsuoma wrote:What happens is that the original version and the edited version of the posts show in their entirety as they were when the "Submit" button was clicked.

There's no easy or sensible way just to show the changes made.

I don't mean in the history page that admins and mods see, I mean in the post that the rest of us see. In your example, no change was made in the original post except the addition!

editing to test the idea that I can change the content of the post... although in this case all I changed was the closing punctuation.

Regular members will simply see the last version of the post as edited. If stuff is added, they'll see the extra stuff as well as the original. If deletions are made, they'll see only what's not been deleted.