¿ªÔÆÌåÓýAnd now I can answer my own question, as I¡¯m not a moderator on this group and there was a typo in my initial post (¡®reposing¡¯ instead of ¡®reposting¡¯, quite accidental I assure you!). Indeed I can edit it but I can¡¯t save it without it being posted to the group again. ? This strikes me as very non-optimal. If a poster makes a silly mistake like mine, where probably most recipients wouldn¡¯t have any trouble understanding what I meant, I can see the value in fixing the message in the archives but no reason at all to send the whole thing out again, though an additional post pointing out the problem could be helpful. ? I would see edit-and-repost as only being useful when the author has made a major cock-up (for example leaving out an important section), such that leaving it in its original form in the archive could be misleading. Even then my preference would always be to reply to the original post pointing out the error, and then maybe editing the original message (but not reposting it) to indicate that the next message in the thread should be looked at as well. ? Anyway, it is how it is and I shall now remove editing rights from all my users. ? Richard ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard L King
Sent: 31 March 2017 10:15 To: [email protected] Subject: [GMF] Editing messages ? The ability for users to edit their own posts is potentially quite handy. ? But I had a case last week where a user edited his post six times, making trivial changes, and it went to the group every time ¨C really annoying, especially as you had to look really hard to see what had changed. And when you multiply the time wasted deciding that there¡¯s nothing to see here by the 7000+ members, that¡¯s a lot of wasted time. ? So I chided him and suggested that editing a post to remove trivial mistakes so it¡¯s good for the archive is fine, just don¡¯t send it to the group again each time. But he came back to me yesterday saying that according to groups.io support, only moderators have the ability to edit without reposing. ? Is this actually true? If so, I think I¡¯ll have to remove users¡¯ edit rights. ? By the way, thanks to groups.io for a great service. It¡¯s such a relief from the misery that was Yahoo! ? Richard King |
