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Retroactive Comment Editing
posted by lucky760 1 month 1 week ago • 430 views
We've changed comments to make it so you can only make modifications in the first hour 24 hours after submission. It's a small change but a necessary one (anyone remember SnakePlissken?), so if you go looking for the edit link and it's not there, you know why.





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Good change, well done. You suck, I hate you all!


written by gwiz665  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Boo.


written by MarineGunrock  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Think about it as having 20/20 foresight and that should turn your frown upside-down. (Better to protect comments than to wait for someone to go nuts and permanently erase Sift content.)


written by lucky760  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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dact and redact sat on a wall.


written by my15minutes  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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i want more history on this snakeplissken ordeal. I've heard the reference multiple times...can somebody update little ol' me?


written by rottenseed  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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^Snakeplissken cannot be explained, only lived. Peace be upon him.

When we are worthy, he will return.


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Only the original cabal know of Snakeplissken's ascent.

I don't know how I feel about this.


written by Farhad2000  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I can't see the point of this...So no more [edits] or [updates] because some guy named after a Kurt Russell character did something wrong? Boo, I say.


written by rasch187  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I can't say I feel strongly either way, but on balance, I think it's probably a bad idea. Many comments are edited due to new information, correcting erroneous information, or redacting personal information, among other things. I get what you're saying about foresight, but I think holding users to a binding policy like that may cause more problems than it will solve. Which begs the question - has there been a rash of edited comments recently that has caused problems? Why do this now?

Also, this may be very confusing for new users down the road, who don't see this post, and naturally assume that the 'edit' functionality is not time restricted.


written by jonny  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I hate to invoke the "most sites" defense (if mosts sites jumped off a cliff ...) but most sites don't allow for eternal retroactive comment editing - and there are valid reasons for this.

For one, it can mess up the flow of a thread that others have responded to down-stream and sew confusion all around.

Is it unreasonable to require, that we as members, commit to our verbage at some point?


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I say allow edits after the first hour, but content can only be striken through, not erased. Of course, new content can be added. I'm not sure how this would be implemented.


written by nibiyabi  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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This is a good change. You need to maintain the integrity and logical flow of the comments as Dag has mentioned.


written by Deano  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I wonder how it would effect users like Pinky who share personal information one night and then realize that they shared too much the next day?


written by Farhad2000  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I remember dealing with snake plissken several times in one of our many sift arguments but i dont know what ordeal they are refering too.


written by K0MMIE  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Every one should go on Comment Strike!

Why? I dont know...


written by NordlichReiter  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Would allowing 24 hours be too long? I like to sober up and then correnct my splelling.


written by schmawy  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^Farhad2000:
I wonder how it would effect users like Pinky who share personal information one night and then realize that they shared too much the next day?


In such extreme circumstances, one could just ask an admin to modify their comment for them.




written by lucky760  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Sifters, who post under the influence, will have to be more careful.


written by dotdude  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Fear being the mind-killer, memories of plissken, memories of a once-mediocre set of parameters, ending with pathetic crescendo, of we have to rob, steal, beg, or fuck art in it's ass, to assure that we keep the Jew's gold......

Fucking Jews, fucking Nazis.....Now that'd make a great snuff film......

Pathetic
Weak
Twisted
and Fucked.......


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I feel schmawy has a good point here. Why set the limit at 1 hour, instead of 12 or 24 hours?

*sticky this. I want to hear what people think of this.


written by rasch187  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by rasch187.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I regret this, then edited it within 24 hours, but after this I couldn't edit it when I regret that too.

Crap.

Let it live forever on the intarnets and provoke more undue negative emotions.

Edit: You should have seen what I had written before I edited this comment.


written by Abducted  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^dotdude:
Sifters, who post under the influence, will have to be more careful.


man, I'm always under the influence
but, srsly, the snake plissken story must be told now that you gave us a taste of it - come on, oldtimers, we want a story!!


written by kulpims  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Okay- The community has spoken. We told SiftBot what you guys said. He grumbled a little and told me to leave him alone, but I think we can convince him to allow comment editing for 24 hours after submission.

*set24hourcommentedit


written by lucky760  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Setting comment edit time to 24 hours - set24hourcommentedit requested by lucky760 after insistence by my meat farm.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Will sifty be set up to redact harsh words in case I drunk-comment and wake up 24 hours later in a regretful stupor?


written by blahpook  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Huzzah! Drinks, for allll my frieeeeeeends!


written by schmawy  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Oh and *quality management as always.


written by schmawy  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Awarding lucky760 with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by schmawy.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I still don't like it.


written by MarineGunrock  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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^grumpy smurf


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^siftbot:
Setting comment edit time to 24 hours - set24hourcommentedit requested by lucky760 after insistence by my meat farm.

your mother was a potato peeler...




written by rottenseed  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Maybe y'all could add a feature like Google did where you have to answer a few math questions to prove you're sober before you can send an email. It's call "Mail Goggles."


written by T-man  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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*unsticky


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by dag.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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*sticky
fuck that shit


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by choggie.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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S'goddamn lame, excuse, for a major fuck-up......


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Hey Choggie- if you have something constructive to add (and a reason for restickying this) please feel free speak up.


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Speaking-
This is not how it has always been-0why lose a feature that affords access to the contributor-not so much the editing feature-the goddamn history of our entire trek!!

I smell a whole lotta shit here, and its not mine.....


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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unless, I could be a dumbass......how doooo we check everything we've ever said....Go find sifts???


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Oh wait....you're not talking to me dag, you are talking at me.....don't play that shit-


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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doubleplus*unsticky


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by choggie.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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dinna think you had anything to say but what you did dag, and you screamed it loud and fucking clear......
*sticky little flypaper, wonder what it tastes like-mmmmmmmm....cold.
Poison......
Trying to escape, can't move.....fuck!

This Stable sucks, pasture looks green, perhaps a walk...


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by choggie.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Choggie - I would call this "attention seeking behaviour" - while it may be fun to watch from the sidelines this kind of stuff hurts the sift. Please chill out or sleep it off - whichever remedy applies best. Thanks


written by dag  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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*unsticky


written by K0MMIE  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Invocations (unsticky) cannot be called by K0MMIE because K0MMIE is not privileged - sorry.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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I like it. 24 hours is plenty of time to sober up and fix grievous errors, after that people just have to stand by what they write.


written by gwiz665  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Weaaaaaaaak. Gaaaaaaaaaay. Laaaaaaaaame. Next thing you know we'll awesome Mods with names like DragonQuestSlayer1 that remove anything they don't like. Hello Gamespot.


written by CaptainPlanet420  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Well, I wanted to edit my last post, but I dunno if I caught it soon enough. Guess just make more comments is the answer. CHOGGIE FTW, posers lay down!


written by CaptainPlanet420  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Oh.....sober.....Well, easy to write off truth by pulljng the alcohol card-Simply.....a lack of comprehension admission would suffice....Sober is my middle fucking name.....


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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*sticky


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by choggie.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Honored to be reckoned as such, never knew the man-Left periods, innit???
Who IS/WAS this man snakeplissken????....Tell us more, please-Seems someone has an opinion based in hard fact......

SG knows, axe her.......


written by choggie  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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*unsticky


written by rasch187  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by rasch187.


written by siftbot  | 1 month 1 week ago | CH
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