By ronia on

Dear Drupal Friend,

Quoting a reply makes
that un-editable by the author
who made that reply.

While another author
who has not been quoted
happily edits.

This discrimination is
killing even it is designed
that way.

Can someone post
a workaround ?

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Comments

matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Hi,

I think this is 'by design' and for good reason. If an author could modify a post after replies have been added, it could appear as though the replies were inappropriate.

Something similar has happened to me when a poster modified a forum post while I was composing my reply. When I submitted my comment, it looked like an inane response, since the poster's problem had completely changed! Admittedly that's not a very serious case, but imagine if the post was 'Would you vote for party X at the next election', to which you reply 'Yes'. The author then changes the question to 'Would you vote for party Y...' which gives the impression that your political views are the complete opposite of what you intended. Imagine how people would react if the post was about something really important, like Emac vs Vi, or Drupal vs Joomla!

So, while there might be hacks to get around it, it's probably best to live with the system as it is. If the original author wishes to change the post, they cam always add a comment with their changes.

ronia’s picture

ronia commented

Dear Matkene,

If this is a design it is a faulty one.
It is good to have this for polls
but not elsewhere.

For example,

In this very thread I can edit
what I said before. So if you have
just plain quoted me by putting
my text copy pasting within ""s
and I have changed it
how is the mess solved?

There is not even a system
generated "Edited" note.

Either you allow edit or
do not allow edit.

How am I know who is
going to auto-quote
my which reply
or make reply to reply
thus denying edit ?

This is something
which should be
immediately solved
by the developers.

Have you noticed
you can change the opening post
even if it is replied to
or auto-quoted ?