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Boomer's avatar

You're never too new to give feedback and you really aren't overstepping🙂

It's really helpful to hear how members experience our platform. Thanks for sharing this, and I'll pass it to the rest of the team 😊

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Thanks so much for the kind response!

Martin's avatar

TBH I've never really thought about it but now you say it does bug me a bit.

I've never really liked the "posted x time ago" part of the header. I know it's trendy but is useless when you are looking at older posts for a specific period.

Maybe change the header to show the actual date posted and then annotate it to show it's state, original, edited (why), etc.

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I could see an argument for doing minutes and hours ago for the people that check the site for new stuff throughout the day. It'll be easier for them to know where they left off. But once it hits a day, a date or date and time seems more appropriate to me!

Sturmer's avatar

Hey, you can always drop your feedback here (of locate the button in the left menu on the desktop view, or a 3-dot menu -> feedback on mobile).

And for the topic: While I understand the importance of indicating when an original post has been edited, in my opinion, this is most effective on platforms like Wikipedia or Confluence, where one can actually view the edit history and see what was changed. In our context, an author could make minor edits like removing a space before a comma, or alter the entire content of a post. As a reader, you wouldn’t know the specifics. This leads to my partly rhetorical question: if you can't see what changed, why do you need to know that something was changed at all?

I'm not advocating for an implementation of a history/changes feature; I believe we could completely omit this information. Most of the time, people are just correcting typos, rewording their text, or dealing with scripts that don't render content correctly.

If someone makes drastic changes, it would be wise to lock the post and submit it for moderation. Moderators could review what has been altered and decide whether to accept or reject the changes, providing reasons for their decision. The main potential for abuse would be if someone made a benign post, like "do you like kittens?", received positive responses, and then changed the content to something embarrassing. However, with a moderation re-review process, this could be effectively managed.

Horror and Cats's avatar

I have never held the edited indicator against a poster, I just assume it was fixing a small mistake. However, I REALLY don't want to have to use it myself because I feel it diminishes MY point. A nice little dose of cognitive dissonance for ya this Friday.

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