Every now and again, we have a problem with people who remove the content of their nodes. This has become somewhat worse because of the recent decision (which I agree with) to extend the ability to edit nodes to root notes.

There's a lot of things we could do to help this, and a lot of them have been proposed. One thing that could be done, that hasn't been proposed, is to take away the ability to edit nodes from those who abuse that power. This'd be similar to the ability of power users to shut people up on the CB, but weaker and presumably longer. I propose the give the power to editors (acting singly, as it's simple to change their mind).

While it can't do all that much help (being after the fact), it can keep people from doing it again, and is relitavely straightforward to implement. (A new settings node to hold the information, change editinvote to not display the form if the user is on the no-edit-list, a superdoc to display the list and allow editors to change it. Not trivial by any means, but not terribly difficult either.

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In reply to Taking away edit-own-nodes privledges. by theorbtwo

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