What the FSCK is the matter with people? I've posted reasonable corrections or questions in reply to a few posts and then people either edit their posts so history is totally fscked, or they rail against me (in the CB as well) and THEN edit their posts to correct their originals, with no mention of the fact made in the post. Is there or is there not a history at this site? My suggestion is that NOONE be allowed to change the content of their posts *period*. Either make it simply impossible or at the very least make it only possible to *append* to a post (at least an appendum is obvious). Changing history is bad bad bad! No, it is worse than bad, it is a lie. Will we support outright lying? What the hell is the problem with just adding a correction instead of rewriting the answer or the code or whatever? Doesn't anyone here have any freaking integrity?

In reply to Re: Post-Posting Etiquette by Anonymous Monk
in thread Post-Posting Etiquette by tadman

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