Disable forum edits

[Austin English]

Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
information.

[Ben Klein]

Ask them to put it in a new post?

On 2009-06-09, Austin English  wrote:
> Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> information.
>
> --
> -Austin

[Austin English]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ben Klein wrote:
> Ask them to put it in a new post?
>
> On 2009-06-09, Austin English  wrote:
> > Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> > version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> > information.

While we could do that, that would require doing so for just about
every post that is made on wine-users, which is a bit ridiculous.

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:41:57 -0500
Austin English  wrote:
> Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> information.

+1
It's not quite as big a problem for those of us who use the forum, but if people don't mark their post as edited, it's not necessarily obvious even to us that something has been changed. Edits just cause problems, with no significant benefit that I can think of.

[Igor Tarasov]

2009/6/9 Austin English :
> Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> information.

Maybe just add notice on edit page stating that edits are for minor
changes only, and if one has some additional information he should add
it as a separate post?

[Austin English]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Igor Tarasov wrote:
> 2009/6/9 Austin English :
> > Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> > version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> > information.
>
> Maybe just add notice on edit page stating that edits are for minor
> changes only, and if one has some additional information he should add
> it as a separate post?

I don't think the minor benefits of edits outweigh the downsides.
'Minor changes' is subject to interpretation, and we all know how that
ends...

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Igor Tarasov"  wrote:
> 2009/6/9 Austin English :
> > Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> > version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> > information.
>
> Maybe just add notice on edit page stating that edits are for minor
> changes only, and if one has some additional information he should add
> it as a separate post?

There is a request to not paste logs and backtraces when adding a comment
to a bug, that doesn't prevent that very well. So disabling the feature
is always a preference.

[Austin English]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Igor Tarasov"  wrote:
> > 2009/6/9 Austin English :
> > > Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> > > version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> > > information.
> >
> > Maybe just add notice on edit page stating that edits are for minor
> > changes only, and if one has some additional information he should add
> > it as a separate post?
>
> There is a request to not paste logs and backtraces when adding a comment
> to a bug, that doesn't prevent that very well. So disabling the feature
> is always a preference.

Jeremy, would you mind disabling edits please?

[Jeremy Newman]

Editing disabled.

-Newman

Austin English wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > "Igor Tarasov"  wrote:
> > > 2009/6/9 Austin English :
> > > > Users are editing their posts when asked for terminal output/wine
> > > > version/etc. Those of us on the mailing list side don't get this
> > > > information.
> > >
> > > Maybe just add notice on edit page stating that edits are for minor
> > > changes only, and if one has some additional information he should add
> > > it as a separate post?
> >
> > There is a request to not paste logs and backtraces when adding a comment
> > to a bug, that doesn't prevent that very well. So disabling the feature
> > is always a preference.
>
> Jeremy, would you mind disabling edits please?

[Austin English]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Newman wrote:
> Editing disabled.
>
> -Newman

Thanks!