Post moderation and post editing

[spikesummers]

When a member is being disciplined and is put on post mod they can easily make a post that is acceptable thus it being made visible. However this person can easily change the post into something offensive after it is visible. I notice you cant turn edit own posts off in their profile so we cant stop them from doing this.

Maybe this needs revision.

Thought?


Spike

[Digi]

I had the same issue with a member on IPSB not to long ago. He felt it necessary to continue editing a post that happened to become the beginning of a split topic. Because post-queue doesn't allow me to disable editing as well w/o approval, I actually had to suspend him entirely from the site for a day. More drastic than I wanted to do. :/

[Strange_Will]

Smack him with a ban stick.


Actually I think that an edit should throw the post back into moderation (maybe a placeholder for the text thats only visible by the user)

[Digi]

That's what I'd like as well. In addition to that, I'd like the ability to rollback to the previous post. In the case I mentioned above, I had to re-edit the user's post to contain the original information so that people weren't confused. A rollback on this member's queued edit changes would have made all that moot and my job more than easy. What would be the very best is that the original post was left visible until the edit was approved! That way a magically disappearing post in a topic wouldn't happen B)

[AndyF]

Slightly off topic but i thought a while ago that a good idea (maybe better as a modification) would be to lock a post (to prevent editing) , similar to the way a topic is locked, but just one single post.

That way it would not ruin a good topic but stop the member from editing that single post anymore.

:)

[spikesummers]

Obviously though as i work on a forum where alot of the members are young they are bound to make typos and make edits. And when one of these members is troublesome and they are on post mod they cud use the edit feature to make offensive posts out of their own which have already been approved.

[C_ind]

Most of the forums at our board are pre moderated, so in order to solve this editing problem we've introduced a thirty minutes time limit for editing for the members group. If a member then sneaks in offensive content between approval and the time limit for editing, that warrants a warn. Three warns and we ban them.