Aevann mentioned he'd put the edit logging feature to a site vote. Figure I'll get some truescore out of it since he's letting it sit for a bit
The Feature
As implemented right now, if you edit a comment or post more than three minutes after making it, the Edit tag turns into a hyperlink leading to the full text of every previous version of the comment. The Author of the comment, as well as Jannies, can click this and read all versions of your comment.
Why care?
This makes removing information from the website even more impossible, on top of a previous update that shortened the seven day grace period to edit a comment or post to THREE DAYS. Click here to find out the type of person you could be giving unretractable information to.
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https://rdrama.net/h/changelog/post/165657/changelog-megathread-marseynotes/6096340#context
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Being in your position means you can't give everyone what they want. I still think it's more negative than positive to hold onto the feature.
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GROO IS
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I don't disagree
but unfortunately I must vote for drama 
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this
i also dont understand how you can just "accidentally" post your peepee or w/e
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Oh nooo I accidentally posted my full home address
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ahhh my w2 tax forms and social security number were uploaded and posted to drama how did this happennnnn
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I'd only this could've been prevented smh
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What does the site gain with edit logging? It seems like it makes the jannies work harder policing things that have been removed already. Just seems like more liability to the site overall without actually adding much drama. If I post the wrong thing previously, I can just deal with it if i notice 3 minutes and 1 second later.
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as someone who has made some very regrettable posts and comments while inebriated, i would initially concur - but if I forget to delete or edit it the next day, I deserve all the scorn for my r-slurred sins
May Marsey Ta'aevann rectify our affairs. Marseummarhamna bil Bussy 'azeem.
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What was the reason for making it so all jannies can read edit history?
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@A
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Don't care
don't doxx yourselves and nothing you post here should matter anyway
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idk why we are discussing this here, but what the site needs is an immutable audit log that's only visible to
@A and similar level admins, so that we don't find ourselves in a bad situation where we host child porn and have no idea who uploaded it because they deleted that comment. Having that will remove all sorts of r-slurred pressures on other features. So suddenly edit log is entirely harmless because admiggers can a) delete the comment for real, including all edits, but b) still provide it to law enforcement.
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Hosting images with no onsite presence is dumb and eroding user control over their content shouldn't be the answer to it.
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Wat?
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So don't host images removed from the site??
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That's nontrivial to implement. And I'm not sure it should be implemented. And I think that having an audit log only accessible to admins with filesystem access is a better solution.
But ok,
@A consider this btw, and make deleting comments work for real ffs one way or the other.
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Not to mention it's not a good storage practice to hold onto unused, unsorted, unsearchable files that are by definition unwanted AND backed up.
How many gigabytes of Goatse are we up to by now?
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not enough
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I have drunkenly admitted to something that i stand by but dont want out there so absolutely yes
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make your lives easier and get rid of the edit feature altogether
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Its still not clear to me why it's required
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Edit logging... Bad!
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I look like and say things like that
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What about a temporary edit log? For example: Edits made within the first 3 minutes aren't logged. Every edit made past the grace period is visible for 3 days(or whatever amount of time) , then disappears. After all edit logs for the post/comment disappear only the usual edited tag remains.
This way users can still maintain a level of privacy, but can't immediately edit to avoid scrutiny if they post something naughty or r-slurred.
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if you self doxx or reveal r-slurred personal info you should definitely deserve to not be able to hide your shame.
just don't be an r-slur
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Remove the exception for carp and it's all good.
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