Implemented Post Edit History

Erik

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This may have been posted already (I can't believe it hasn't), but I tried searching and I couldn't find anything, so here goes...

Currently, if you edit a post, there's no indication that the post was edited. I thought it just updated the post date/time, but I just tested it and it doesn't appear to do anything at all (post date/time stays as original).

It would be really nice if there was a "edited by [name] x minutes ago..." in addition to the original posting date, à la vBulletin and others.

I feel that this is a crucial feature to avoid confusing or malicious/nefarious edits. :)
 
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We need to be able to see if a post was deleted or edited by one of our moderators which moderator performed this action and a history of the changes. With the amount of moderators we have (65) on our boards and them being volunteers this is vital for managing them. Please consider this :love:
 
Yes this is a must. It's hard to deal with users claiming someone from the mod/admin team edited their posts.
 
I agree with this, although I fully expect it will make an appearance in XenForo very soon anyway as it's a standard forum feature.

BTW, it's great to see AVForums moving to XenForo - that is a a forum I hugely admire and I suspect it will gain a lot of attention for XenForo.
 
I was surprised to not see this feature out of the box for the beta.
I'm still surprised to not see it.

It can cause a significant amount of trouble with people changing their posts and follow up poster's replies not making sense.
Once forum posters know you can change your post at any time with no record of doing so .... people start "MASS QUOTING" posts, so they save a copy of your post in their posts. That's not great either.
 
It can cause a significant amount of trouble with people changing their posts and follow up poster's replies not making sense.
Once forum posters know you can change your post at any time with no record of doing so .... people start "MASS QUOTING" posts, so they save a copy of your post in their posts. That's great.
Correct.
And those quotes could be false as well,see above my edit in your post.
(The sentence in red is not Digital Doctor's original sentence)
 
Nice idea! Some sketchy stuff can happen without the ability to track it. I'd only be worried about database storage impact, but I assume there would be an option to prune edit history, with the exception of the username of the last editor.
 
Just have to add that I also think this is a key piece of functionality that really does need to be added as soon as possible. At the very least something to indicate that a post has been edited at a certain time is very important in my view.

Also whilst I do not think revision history would cause that much of an issue in terms of db storage (especially if it was cleaned up every x months / weeks) but what if there was the ability to prevent more than x amount of edits per hour to stop malicious usage of the edit function :p.
 
but what if there was the ability to prevent more than x amount of edits per hour to stop malicious usage of the edit function :p.
Hard to say how often this type of abuse would occur. I would think it would be fairly rare. So rare, it might not be worth having such a throttle.
 
Hard to say how often this type of abuse would occur. I would think it would be fairly rare. So rare, it might not be worth having such a throttle.
It should be a admin configurable option...because if someone posts something against your TOS, and they edit their post(say 5,000 times lol) that might cause timeouts to load all that edit history if you try to edit their post...on the other hand it would be obvious they did it on purpose and you could just delete the post lol. I just expect everyone to be the worst troll in the world.
 
I appreciate having a post edit history, but I can live without it. One thing my forums have always used was a time limit on the editing of posts. 15 minutes is sufficient for cleaning up minor errors in a post after it has been made. But I've found over the years that allowing editing at any time opens up other problems, such as an original post quoted a year apart, where the contents may have changed substantially. I would rather see the original poster quote the original post (or small parts of it) and make a correctional post later in the thread.

I have also had a couple of instances where a member, for whatever trivial reason, gets mad at the forum and, not finding a way to delete his posts, would delete the contents of the posts themselves, leaving nearly empty posts.

I will relay this final tidbit, though: on the big board I administrate, can you guess who is the most guilty of editing or deleting others' posts? The forum owner. We have a dozen moderators on staff, so you would expect to see an average of about maybe 7-9% of moderation actions per each moderator. The forum owner himself has made between 25-30% of all moderation actions on the forum! These are not corrections either--they are very small post edits to subtly change the meaning of the post. The fact that I have an audit trail is some leverage we have if things really take a turn for the worse. This is not lost on the membership either--many long-time members have already left, this being one of the reasons. It's like finding out a favorite uncle has been lying to you all of your lifetime... *sigh*
 
One thing my forums have always used was a time limit on the editing of posts. 15 minutes is sufficient for cleaning up minor errors in a post after it has been made.
Sounds like you want the 15 minute limit.
How about being able to edit the Title in that time as well !
 
I don't like this much to my disagreement, that I don't like this.

I like this thing on vBulletin so that I can see what the user said BEFORE the new edit.

But I don't like it because it shows up for litterally everyone.
 
I apologize in advance if this has already been suggested, but my searches yielded nothing.

I'd like to suggest keeping a version history of posts that staff can see. Great way to catch liars in the act (oh, I never said that!), as well as spammers who post a lot, then go back and replace the somewhat valid posts with links.
 
I'm quite sure this has been suggested before and his planned for sometime in the future. Brogan will be able to confirm this if he hasn't already submitted already. :p

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-last-edited-by-name-at-time.399/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/editing-posts-in-thread.1389/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-post-edit-history.2883/

Edit: Nope, I beat him to it.
You should have a ninja smiley for such occasions.
 


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