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Re^2: Editing your writeup is now a separate action from viewing a thread and voting on replies (no cat ans edit)

by jdporter (Paladin)
on Jun 15, 2016 at 15:42 UTC ( [id://1165739]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Editing your writeup is now a separate action from viewing a thread and voting on replies (no cat ans edit)
in thread Editing your writeup is now a separate action from viewing a thread and voting on replies

Thanks. I will fix.

Note even the new option

I'm not sure how to parse that. Did you mean "not"? I was able to edit a CatQ and a CatA by using the new option to "edit in display".

(Hold on... It may be because I'm in QandAEditors.)

On further reflection... Did this ever work? I thought that once a monk submitted a CatQ/A, it became owned by QandAEditors and was no longer editable by the submittor. No?

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^3: Editing your writeup is now a separate action from viewing a thread and voting on replies (original_user)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 15, 2016 at 18:45 UTC

    Sorry, yes, "Note" should have been "Not" as you guessed.

    I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe that the old state was that when you looked at "your" submissions, you could edit them directly (even through they were not "owned" by you). I'm pretty sure that people have been editing those w/o having to ask Q+A Editors to do it for them.

    Perhaps somebody who has tried that more recently than I could chime in (but tried before these recent changes).

    So my guess is that there was code in 'editinvote' (or somewhere) that honored original_author not just author_user.

    - tye        

      I've only looked into categorized answer display page so far; it uses editinvote whereas categorized question display page does not, and never has.

      It looks to me like editinvote depends, and has always depended, solely on canUpdateNode for its authorization check. And canUpdateNode does not -- and I guess never has -- accounted for $NODE->{original_author}. So I'm pretty sure I was right, at least as regards CatA nodes.

      And given that, I'm also comfortable in my confidence that it was also the case for CatQ nodes.

      Further investigation (which was surprisingly tough; very little seems to have been said on the specific point of the editability of CatQ/A by original author) -- I found:

      • This old Editor Request, which was asking for an edit to a CatA -- which wouldn't have been necessary if the author could have edited it himself.
      • This old PMD subthread, in which monks discuss the idea of opening up CatQ/A nodes to editing by author. vroom (and others) explain why it was not done that way.

      I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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