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Should software enforce "edited by" note

Poll: Should software enforce "edited by" note (26 member(s) have cast votes)

Should software enforce "edited by" note

  1. Yes (13 votes [44.83%])

    Percentage of vote: 44.83%

  2. No (12 votes [41.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 41.38%

  3. Other (4 votes [13.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.79%

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Posted 2011-June-26, 11:08

View Postjillybean, on 2011-June-26, 10:44, said:

The 'edited by' feature is only useful if a reader can tell what was edited. The onus is on the author to include a comment if they change the content in any significant way. Having an automatic, 'edited by' comment with no description only adds clutter.


I agree. I doubt it's possible to force edits (maybe default at least) so that edits appear in bold, but if it is I'd support that. I wouldn't mind it, even for my 30 second grammar fixes.
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Posted 2011-June-26, 16:02

View Postinquiry, on 2011-June-26, 10:33, said:

The only option available is to either ENFORCE the edit line, or not enforce it. There is no option for conditional enforcement (if after 10 minutes, if after a down vote, etc).



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Posted 2011-June-26, 16:19

View PostVampyr, on 2011-June-26, 16:02, said:

Why not?


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Posted 2011-June-27, 06:25

I don't see many advantages of forcing it. We have the option to display it, perhaps you can change the default setting for new users. I don't have any strong feelings about this though, but I know many of my posts would contain it because in many cases I change them within the first 15 minutes or so. Just adding something small, correcting a typo, noticing that I didn't read the OP correctly, the post I quoted was just modified,... So the suggestion to not apply this within the first few minutes is definitely something to consider if you're planning to enforce the "edited by" note.

I've never used this note, so I've got a question: if you modify your post multiple times, how many "edited by" notes are displayed?
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