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Re: Last modified date on nodesby ww (Archbishop) |
on Mar 23, 2009 at 17:49 UTC ( [id://752670]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'd give this an absolutely, rock-solid "maybe"... except for a contrary inclination to say "lousy idea." On the plus side -- and assuming it's feasible -- it might pose less work for the janitors who get a fair number of considerations requesting "restore original content" (which they can and sometimes do, whilst differentiating the OP from its updated content. But, TTBOMK, Corion's records, at http://corion.net are the best source for original content and are accessible to anyone who wishes to review a node for possible un-flagged updates. I keep a link in my Free Nodelet for such review. It looks like this: [http://corion.net/perlmonks/`id`.xml|Original content of `id`]On the down side, your proposal fails to discourage the abusers who update without warning; especially those who remove their original content in favor of something that's responsive to a reply or to make themselves appear a bit less dunder-headed. A datastamp would do nothing to restore the original... and it's the lack of that which -- IMO -- makes the replies "confusing." An alternative might be developing a mechanism that "locks down" a node as soon as it receives a reply (thus encouraging a reply to a reply), but even that has its weaknesses, as threads sometimes contain nodes that are tantamount to replies to nodes at the same level.
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