if you are a heterosexual, or may at any time in the future have penis-in-vagina type sex, you should learn a little bit more about contraception. that is absolutely not how any IUD works.
I have been on lots of old forums too. That is irrelevant to this thread. This thread is about the ability to investigate the typos on the old forum posts. How often are you on some phpBB site thinking "this would be so much better if I could see what incorrect information was edited out in 2009."? Nobody fucking cares.
You seem to be wanting a platform on which to conduct official, auditable conversations which are subject to accountability in the form of total mutual surveillance. For some reason pinning these hopes to a random project with a sewer rat for a mascot.
The internet has been going on for like 50 years now, people have been pulling all manner of flame war shenanigans and this has like never been a significant problem. Because if a conversation is being watched by a lot of people, there are always others who saw the original post who can corroborate the change. And if it isn't, who the fuck cares? Like I said to OP, if you are getting into a lot of petty flame wars and feel you need this sort of thing, learn to take a screen shot or use some of the other many client side or 3rd party tools available just for this kind of suspicion. For the most part it is some kind of online urban legend tho. Plenty of people are saying all kinds of stupid bullshit online, no need for others to plot and plan to trick them into doing so. Whoever is looking to find stupid bullshit can find it without resorting to trickery, in any variety they choose.
I actually don't think it is required to trust people on a forum in the way you suggest.
If I was in what I perceived to be a really high stakes discussion (read: flamewar) where I was worried about this, I would take my own measures to ensure I could "trust" the other parties. I would save my own copies locally. Reddit RES had a button you could add client side for just this kind of petty bullshit. If you really want the feature, implement it in your browser/device.
Really though friend, try to have a bit of a sense of humor and distance from your online posting and interactions with unknown people. If someone is going to such lengths as to edit their post so it looks like you are responding to something else to make you look bad, it is either: a) a boring joke, or b) they are really pathetic and sad trying to sabotage you. Either way, it's not the end of the world. If it sticks in your craw, you can just go edit your comment to say "edit: the comment to which I am replied was substantially edited after I posted so what I said no longer applies". You can either delete what you said, or correct it, or leave it as-is with a caveat.
also some people did learn english (or whatever language is being used) yesterday and they might notice something confusing about their post after creating it... why let it persist
To draw attention to an edit, for example to correct an erroneous statement, use a combination of strikethrough and bold (or italic if more appropriate):
Joe Hill, who wrote songs about union organizing, was framed and hungexecuted by firing squad by the state of Utah in 1915.
Joe Hill, who wrote songs about union organizing, was framed and ~~hung~~ **executed by firing squad** by the state of Utah in 1915.
Should be minimal since it’s text. In fact, a lot of my edits reduce posts since I use it to add an edit that I would’ve needed to post in multiple sub-threads.
If you make a post which is 1000 chars in length, then you edit it to be only 800 chars, the 1000 chars still need to be stored. And federated and everything. That is the actual idea being presented here. It might not be a total of 1000+800=1800 chars because there are clever ways of compressing stuff, but it is still 1000 and certainly 800. And as @fartsparkles also pointed out you need to track meta data for each edit in addition to the text.
It doesn’t cause clutter in Wikipedia, so it’s not inherently a poor UX choice.
Interesting comparison. Wikipedia has a very robust system for tracking changes, because it is a core feature of the project. It is a collection of collaboratively edited documents. Since that's the whole idea of the project, they have rules, software, code, humans, robots, meetings, arguments, computers, etc to manage it because it is really complicated.
Threadiverse is not a collaboratively edited collection of documents so why introduce that? There is no compelling argument presented.
Also mentioned is git, which like wikipedia is primarily a tool for collaborative editing. It also has the ability to permanently remove: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch Not to mention using git is a very specialized skill primarily attained through formal education and employment.
Both wikimedia and git are known as very complicated to use pieces of software which take years of practice to be good at. Both have their own subcultures. They have to be like this because they are trying to accomplish a complicated task, which is to allow large number of people to collaborate together. I think compare/contrasting these to threadiverse does a great deal to show what actually happens when you need to have changetracking like this and how difficult it is to design properly in such a way that it can be easily used by a common person without significant study.
reading sequentially posted items when the original author wishes to correct themselves is really annoying
there are reasons other than personal embarrassment someone would want to correct something they'd said. like if you give advice but later realize the advice could be dangerous for a group of people you hadn't considered
I think "server" is good enough for the appropriate audiences. (Not everyone knows what a server is/does.) However since the accepted term is now "instance" I think the best idea is to mix them up so that audience will be able to pick up contextually that they have similar meanings.
Adults continue to learn new words in their home language at a rate of about 1 word/week through life. [citation needed] Many of these words are related to changes in technology. It is not too much to ask for a person to learn some new vocab when trying a new tech. But, having the initial ideas presented in a framiliar way that does not require use of a glossary is helpful.
some people might understand what a proxy is but many won't. if i turn off my nerd brain, proxy makes me think of "proxy war". knowing about the concept of a proxy war, calling something a proxy, it is just confusing.
could never quite get around to doing all the steps required to get extensions on ff mobile. it sucks because addons are one of the best features of ff desktop.
someone should just fork the extension "user agent switcher" and call it "enable addons for firefox mobile" or something. that way it will be findable to more people.
"I miss the good old internet. This isn't a talk about how we can get the old good internet back. It's a talk about what a new good internet could be. And why we don't have it yet, and how we could get it. "
I love this guy. And he's gonna do this whole 45 minute talk wearing a mask. Total badass.
the beehaw admins have never pretended to be anything other than opinionated. the underlined articles sound stupid and I'm sure nobody is missing your dumb shit.
nope
edit: maybe you are thinking of an IUS