Editing forum post, proposal for rules
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posted 2008/11/18 14:43
We shouldn't prevent someone from deleting his own post. If he wants to remove his profile and leave BeWelcome without leaving anything behind, he should be able to delete his forum history. Julien
posted 2008/11/18 14:47 created by fabzgy last edited by fabzgy on 2008-11-24 08:12:40
I think we should more likely concentrate to produce a tool for willing users. The few users who want to sabotage the system arevery few till non existent I think.*edit*
posted 2008/11/18 15:20
quote from Sitarane : "We shouldn't prevent someone from deleting his own post. If he wants to remove his profile and leave BeWelcome without leaving anything behind, he should be able to delete his forum history." I do not agree with you, Julien. When somebody interacts with other people, it is only fair that this interaction remains visible. If you have a discussion on the forum, and you delete only one side of the argument, the other side does not make any more sense. Just like when somebody writes a letter to a newspaper, and it is printed, you cannot "undo" this letter. People should take responsability for what they write.
posted 2008/11/18 18:34
Waht about making the post "anonymous" if someone leaves?
posted 2008/11/18 19:11 created by jeanyves last edited by jeanyves on 2008-11-18 19:12:31
What about making the post "anonymous" if someone leaves? @Fabzy, it is exactly what will happen : instead of the username of the member something like id_leftmember_xxxx will be displayed (when the left member script to replace private data and personal data of left members will run daily). Of course if in the next post someone has wrote "@Fabgzy I disagree with you !" anonymous will be a bit unefficient ;-) in anyway this system has limits
posted 2008/11/19 09:57
Hey the green arrows are back! Perfect!
posted 2008/11/19 15:52
I would love to give another member a right to translate my post. There should be a link/button/icon in every of your posts. So you simply click the button and a popup will say " Please type the members username, who you would like to get the right to translate this post" After I give the right to another member, there will be a notifikation mail to inform the member that he/she have the right to translate a post. (just brainstorming)
posted 2008/11/19 16:21
@Manuel, there is nothing programmed to do this, for now , but I think this is a vey good idea. This will increase people interaction. A small button appears on your own post, if the mouse goes on it a tip popup and say "Grant someone the right to translate this post", you click on it, you enter the name of the username you grant this right, you choose the language, you can add an optional message.
Then your partner, receives a notification (with a link) he has just to click on the link (to logon if he was'nt logged in) and he see a form with your text and he can fill it with a translation, you receive a back notification when he has did it. This is achievable (but please wait some weeks) In fact I hope that BeWelcome will be able to create a hight quality "Babel Forum" where people will help each other for understanding.
posted 2008/11/19 22:47
just see it as a long vision, jy ;) nothing for the close future
posted 2008/11/20 09:22
I agree with Julien, but more for practical reasons... If we allow people to edit their own posts they can well put '***' instead of the original post, so it is the same as deleting the posts. I would say we should not implement a feature that allows users to delete ALL their forum posts with just one click. If they wish, they will at least have to check what exactly disturbs them and do it one by one. Of course, if other users quote posts, these quotations should remain untouched. As default we should go for JY's suggestions to anonymize the forum posts of members who left.
posted 2008/11/23 20:35
test
posted 2008/11/28 15:32 created by feuerdaemon last edited by feuerdaemon on 2008-11-28 15:35:58
I don't think it is a good idea to make it possible to delete or anonymize posts. Even if some leave. Imagine someone explains a function of BeWelcome in a forum post or is helping other people with a problem. Other members can not follow anymore that discussion anymore and the complete thread is useless. See it like a organization. If some is leaving a organisation, you also don't delete or anonymizing all the protocols from meetings. I think it is important to keep all that. It is part of the community and part of BeWelcome. And same for anonymizing of member names. It should only be visible that a member has left the comunity but the name should be still viewable. Just my opinion.
posted 2008/11/30 14:58
About allowing the user to delete his own entries, I was just voicing the consensus reached at the SHE (Sustainable Hospitality Exchange) conference that we had in Amsterdam. I think it was mentionned in the Bill of Member Rights but I can't check because... Hey! Where is the forum search tool!? SHE is of course independant of BeWelcome and the Bill of Member Right has never been adopted by BW. But it still makes sense to quote it I suppose. @Claudia: True, for this case it would be important that the member does it one by one.
posted 2008/11/30 15:13
I browse the website in French. I wrote a message in English (the christmas thread), then translated it in French, and while doing that noticed a mistake in the english version. I posted the french translation and then wanted to edit the original english post. But when I clicked "edit" (after passing the mouse over the "en"), it gave me the french translation to edit. The "edit/translate" dual thing is confusing.
posted 2008/11/30 16:21 created by jeanyves last edited by bwadmin on 2008-11-30 16:27:28
@Julien about the confusing edit / translate I agree with you it is very easy to make a mistake here I think it is mainly an ergonomy problem but I miss good ideas here
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