Question

Is there any way that we could add a feature to allow people to edit comments?

Answer 1

Yeah was thinking about that too... Because sometimes you make a typo you wanna go fix it... Like how you ask a question though you can edit it...

Answer 2

@poopsiedoodle @camerondoherty I copy my post, delete it, paste into the post location and edit. Quite a bit of work for a simply typo, so I rarely do this.

Answer 3

also, an unrelated thing (because I can't have 2 posts up at once)
I imagine the feedback button isn't supposed to do this:

Answer 4

@poopsiedoodle Nope. That is a break down in the internet browser's language interpreter. Likely an issue causing the slowing down of the website rendering or a add-on that blocks certain code from running.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I would allow people to get rid of cheating evidence without losing medals...
Also, if people can alter their comments, it could render the thread unreadable.
Sooooo... I don't think it's going to happen.

Answer 7

^ That's exactly what I was thinking.
That would make it so much easier for people to troll and get away with it.
Just simply typing what you meant in another comment works fine, too. ^.^

Answer 8

Well, they couldn't really get rid of cheating evidence if it was logged like question edits and chat deletes, right?

Answer 9

@thomaster, not if you put a time limit on it. I think editing should be allowed, but only for up to 3 minutes after a question or comment is posted. I've proposed this before.

Answer 10

Or perhaos allow an edit history to be seen.

Answer 11

^
or it could just be logged like question edits are in the mod panel or w/e

Answer 12

Yes, but I am saying do it as somethign people could click to view. So even edits are public. I wondered why they did not do that for question edits. It makes it harder for people hide abuse if the original is still easily seen and reported.

Answer 13

@e.mccormick, you definitely have a good idea and I think it should be implemented but just restricted to a three minute time limit. One of the things I've noticed is that students will post questions and receive help on their questions, but then edit and remove the content later.

Answer 14

@Hero Unless there is a time limit already in place, you can "edit" our posts. Simply copy the old post, delete it, paste the post into the entry box for a new post, paste, and edit away. Depending on the thread this may be obvious or completely undetectable to a casual review of responses.

Answer 15

Yeah. This has been discussed many times.

Seems like the cheating issue is the main roadblock.

Answer 16

but there are so many ways to make that not a problem