Currently it seems there is only one universal option (which seems to be set to one day by default).
If there isn’t a way to change editing times can I suggest the following please:
Allow an option to change editing time for TL3 users. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.)
Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. (We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc) Perhaps by TL level too (so if in Category A + TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc).
Is there any other way to keep track of edits Jeff? If it’s not already, I’m fairly sure this will be exploited by spammers soon - it’s one of the reasons why on other forum software I had the edit limit to 1 day.
Perhaps there can be a queue system for edits longer than a day old? Or edit-time-allowed based on Trust Level?
One setting just isn’t adequate for a busy modern forum tbh. What do you think of expanding the editing options? Perhaps something like:
Allow an option to change editing time based on Trust Level. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.)
Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc - these are all things where the first post would need to be edited over a much longer period of time.
Maybe combine the two too, so if in Category Dev Profiles AND TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc.
What is the use case? Describe the real world problem, with actual live examples, this would solve. I do not mean hypotheticals, I mean actual real world situations you have run into that would necessitate this.
We also have sections for user’s Projects where I would also switch on extended editing for the first post, as well as a Learning Resources category which includes sub-sections that also act as an information resource that may need to be kept updated (we have a dedicated thread for each book, course, etc)
I don’t think it’s just this forum that would benefit from it, on a dog forum for example, we could have threads that act as a profile for user’s dogs, on a car forum, a thread for user’s cars etc. More generally, it could be useful for guides, how-to’s etc which need to be kept updated.
Traditionally, threads like these on forums become ‘stale’ - it would be great if we can avoid that with Discourse
Unfortunately that’s impractical for several use cases - such as people’s developer profiles, their libraries, projects etc that are all personal to them. (Plus it would add a burden to the mod team.)
I have started a thread and have multi user’s and a lot of the users can’t edit. Can this be changed so that we can continue our grow off contest?
By the way I am garrigan65 I to work for ILGM
