Lara declared:
Comment editing: To Allow, or Disallow?
Saturday, July 21st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
The thought of editing comments after one has posted on any of my blogs has never been an issue. There just hasn’t been a convenient feature on WordPress for it yet. However, that’s all changed. Thanks to my good friend, Robbie, I’ve found this nifty “WP Ajax Edit Comments” plugin.
Now, one must beg the question: Should I or shouldn’t I allow the luxury of editing comments after they’ve been posted to my readers? On one hand, ugly typos, bad grammar, and incorrectly referenced links could be removed. On the other side, readers could back down on a view-point after they’ve seen a particular reaction, or change their previous words altogether. Where would I be without the ridiculous flame wars of “WELL YOU CAN’T EVEN SPELL ‘THOUGH’ RIGHT SO THERE!”
What do you think?
Comment editing: To Allow, or Disallow?
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Robbie said,
July 22, 2007 at 9:00 am
I was worried about the exact same thing, but you can limit the comment editing to “a few minutes” after the post.
So if I make a post right now, I would have only a few minutes to edit my post (probably before anyone else could read it).
Some set it to 15 minutes, but I don’t think they need that much time to preview/edit their comments. (and you also turn on countdown, so the users sees how much time he has to edit his comment).
Hope this helps
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Lara said,
July 23, 2007 at 12:53 am
Good point there Robbie.
Funny thing is, I went to activate this plugin and it seemed to throw around my theme all crazy. I was out the door at that point, so I’ll have to set aside some time to make it display nicely : )