Editing Comments

ExtremeLogic

So you can edit projects. So you can edit posts (Scratchers can, at least). So you can edit your own profile(s). So why can't you be able to edit comments? On projects AND studios. (Your OWN comments, I mean.)

joshuaho

What if someone wrote this?

This project is horrible! It could improve by….

…and then found that he was going to be reported. So then he edits the comment.

It could improve by…..

…and gets away with posting a mean comment.

I'm sorry, but I don't support because of what could potentially happen (like the situation above).

derpmeup

Well, joshuaho is right. Somebody could post a mean comment and edit it, so i don't support.

ScratchJahd2011

Also it could be used for trolling:

Troll wrote:
HAI YER A BAD PRIGRAMMER, I IS BETTER THAN U

Then edit it so he will not be reported.

Troll wrote:
HAI I DIDNT TYPE ANYTHING BAD HERE

So I don't support.

ExtremeLogic

The owner of the project should be notified if someone edits their comment on their project, but still be notified when and what the original comment was posted and said. That way, he can still show the evidence (e.g. Snipping Tool) in a post (using one of those websites where you just upload pictures, in which I use photobucket).
No?

Blueinkproductions

I actually think if someone edits a mean comment it is a good thing. They have realized that they are mean or have been too harsh and are changing it. Support. Also sometimes I want to rewrite something but I have already said it. What about a feature where you could delete your comments? I think it would be useful.

Failord

Maybe you would be allowed one update a week for each individual comment. The old content should be accessible to everyone by dropdown, and have a short snippet like with the notifications.

Last edited by Failord (March 30, 2014 00:10:48)

ExtremeLogic

Or maybe they can only edit their comments if the comments are younger than an hour old?

Blueinkproductions

ExtremeLogic wrote:
Or maybe they can only edit their comments if the comments are younger than an hour old?

That is an okay idea, but maybe with a smaller time limit. 30 minutes is better. If they made a mistake they would fix it by then.

ExtremeLogic

Ok. Or maybe even 15 minutes?

iceclimorz

You guys do realize there could be a history thing or whatever that the Scratch team could use to even see through edits? Just saying.

scimonster

I don't see why people are bashing this idea so much. You can edit posts, projects, other stuff. Why not comments?

It could be pretty useful, for fixing typos, or if you press send too early, or if you realize that something came out wrong. If we need, there could be history, and a limit to how much time you have to edit it.

ExtremeLogic

So let's see what we have here:
-Some supporters?
-Limit of time when you can still edit it
-Keep a history of the (edited) comment
-Deleting own comments?
-Some people posting after this has been left alone for more than two weeks…

Am I right?

Last edited by ExtremeLogic (April 13, 2014 12:37:21)

wilkgr

ExtremeLogic wrote:
So let's see what we have here:
-Some supporters?
-Limit of time when you can still edit it
-Keep a history of the (edited) comment
-Deleting own comments?
-Some people posting after this has been left alone for more than two weeks…

Am I right?

You're right, and I'm supporting this apart from the deleting.

CosmicHamster

I actually support. We can edit posts, and even if they get reported and you edit them, you still get in trouble because the Scratch Team uses their magic to find out what it said before it was edited. I think it would be useful, if you made a mistake. I don't think there should be a time limit of when you can edit it, because you don't have that in the forums. I think that if you edit a comment, it would show that Last edited by username (Month day, year hour:minute:second) thing.

duckboycool

ExtremeLogic Nice signiture, and you can't edit comment for the exact reason joshuaho announced. If anyone could change comments we wouldn't know what they could of said.

TheHockeyist

No support as per joshuaho.

rollercoasterfan

CosmicHamster wrote:
I actually support. We can edit posts, and even if they get reported and you edit them, you still get in trouble because the Scratch Team uses their magic to find out what it said before it was edited. I think it would be useful, if you made a mistake. I don't think there should be a time limit of when you can edit it, because you don't have that in the forums. I think that if you edit a comment, it would show that Last edited by username (Month day, year hour:minute:second) thing.

Birdlegs

Supprot!

…

Uh, I mean support!

Too late… maybe if we could edit comments it'd be different…

Amazing_Ace

How about a “Show Original Comment” under the edited post?

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