Timeline for Help us identify micro-privileges for top users
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| Jan 9, 2016 at 0:51 | comment | added | GiantCowFilms | @yo' sometimes a missing 2 letter word, or an extra letter can make a comment virtually unintelligible, or change the meaning. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | yo' | @GiantCowFilms You don't need to correct typos in something as unimportant as a comment, do you? | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 11:51 | history | edited | wythagoras | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 16 characters in body
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| Oct 24, 2015 at 1:44 | history | edited | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Good idea, but not practical without a major overhaul of comments. I'd love to do that, but it's not likely any time soon.
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| Jun 17, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | GiantCowFilms | I suggest permanently allowing minor edits at least (as determined by an algorithm). a minor edit might be like this ("I relly disagree" to "I really disagree"), a quick fix that you missed during the first five min. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 4:21 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | What I could agree with is allowing priviledged users to edit their comment for one hour or similar if it is the most recent comment. This way no confusion can arise due to comments in the middle of a discusion changing. As one can already do this by plainly deleting and reposting the comment, this is however indeed a microfeature. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 4:17 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | It’s not only about superusers doing unfortunate things, it’s also adding confusion. Users do not expect comments to change, in particular old ones. Learning how Stack Exchange works is quite confusing already, having to learn that users with some high reputation level can edit comments whenever they want adds to this confusion. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 21:40 | comment | added | jakebeal | I'd suggest not removing the time limit, but extending the time limit, say to 30 minutes or 1 hour. I've had a number of occasions when I was collecting an appropriate link or the like and ran just over the 5 minute deadline. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Even superusers can, very occasionally, do unfortunate things, or rage-quit, or something. I don't expect we would need this very often, but I'm not prepared to say the number is 0 so I'd like to have some mitigation there. I'm hoping that pushing the information that must be already available into a tooltip would be a minor bit of work to enable your proposal. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 21:03 | comment | added | ChrisW | @MonicaCellio That would be a new feature wouldn't it? And are you worried that this feature could be abused if it were available to superusers? I assumed superusers were trusted. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 20:59 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | I'd like to see something to address the confusion or disruption that can be caused by editing a comment that someone else has replied to. A timestamp in the tooltip on that edit icon showing the last-edit time would be sufficient. I just want it to be possible for people to see that it happened if something happens in the thread to raise the question. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | Frank | Oh ok, I didn't realize mods had that ninja-edit power. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | ChrisW | They stay where they are. There's a pencil icon added to say that the comment has been edited. This feature already exists: users can edit their own comments for 5 minutes; moderators can edit any comment any time. The new feature I'm suggesting is similar: superusers can edit their own comments any time. | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | Frank | And what to do with the time stamp and the order of the comments? | |
| Jun 16, 2015 at 20:47 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |