User talk:Vesaaeo

Re: The afterwards editing of discussions
Regarding your post on WP:Requests for comment/Request board: What I find strange about Wikipedia discussions is that you can edit other people's input as if you were editing an article. If the system is as plain as it seems, I'm afraid it can be misused. In theory, you can track everything from the history but it would be better if it could not be misused at all.

So, the primary change I'm suggesting is that people only be allowed to edit their own comments afterwards, and even then there would appear a timestamped marking that it has been edited, preferably with the option to see how the article has been changed, to expose any misleading changes.

Then there may be inappropriate/"dirty" comments that deserve to be banned. For those, I suggest that there be some "Report Abuse" button: When a sufficient number of people press that button, the comment is replaced by a button saying something like "Comment reported as abuse by N people -- click to view". Or what would be best for those cases? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vesaaeo (talk • contribs) 14:56, December 25, 2011 UTC


 * There is policy governing the modification of other editor's comments on talk pages. So far this appears to be successful at dealing with such talk page abuse. See WP:TPO. Joja  lozzo  17:22, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

You may also want to consider posting this suggestion on the talk page for the Wikipedia policy on Talk page. If you start a discussion there, you can solicit addition input by adding a request for comments template. Additionally, you could consider adding a proposal at the Village Pump. Coastside (talk) 08:55, 17 June 2012 (UTC)