Re^2: PM Feature Idea: optionally add short comment on update

I don't like mandatory automatic stamps. I use preview for my initial posting and hit 'create' only when I think the response I give is useful, but I often go back and fine-tune it, rethink and improve it, and fix typos. If there were mandatory stamps, it would look like this.

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Updated (2005-16-09 11:52:51) Thanks for spotting that problem.

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Re^3: PM Feature Idea: optionally add short comment on update by tinita (Parson) on Sep 16, 2005 at 18:00 UTC
it would look like this. who said that? it could just show the last update in a small font. at least it's like that at perl-community.de, for example. i would really like to see if someone updated their node silently. their could also be a minimum of time, so that, if you update up to, say 3 minutes after posting because of a typo, there would be no mandatory stamp.	[reply]
Re^3: PM Feature Idea: optionally add short comment on update by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Sep 17, 2005 at 11:05 UTC
As tinita already said, the 'fixing of typos' a couple of minutes after the original post would not be marked. Then, some more minutes later, only the last edit would be automagically marked, and by whom the edit was (could well have been a janitor). Thus all you'd ever see was that the node was later edited (i.e. not exactly in the state it was in when first written). This puts just a little pressure on authors/editors to sometimes note what they've changed - and why. Cheers, Sören	[reply]