zebanovich
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When you post something and later decide to add more information (while you're the last poster in a thread) that means either:
1. Creating new post OR
2. Editing existing one
I think both cases are not good enough:
1. Creating new post means
- Sending additional email to thread subscribers, I'm sure not everybody likes to have
two or more mail notifications for one and same, or related thing, and might result in disabling this forum option.
- Will result in 2 posts by same poster which makes the thread less clean (or should I say, look like spamming the thread)
- Also results in boosting poster's message count just for updates.
2. Editing existing one results in warning:
My suggestion is when we post additional information, then the new content is automatically added to last post but in such a manner that the
original post is visibly "updated", for example my initial post:
1. The thread looks cleaner (less posts by same user)
2. Poster doesn't boost it's message count just for updating his post
3. email notification is optionally sent multiple times for each update, making our emails cleaner too.
4. Push notification is always generated for updates but never for edits, this makes the thread act like a live chat.
For the point 3, a user should be able to disable being notified via email for additional post updates by same user, this could be the default,
and if a user decides he wants to get mail notification for single post updates (those by same user to their own posts) why not?
For the point 4, push notifications can now show it's full and better potential, updates done to existing post should always result in push notification being generated,
while edits to post should not, if all thread participants are online, the benefit is that the thread would act as a live chat,
because for each update to last post the participants would be notified so there is no need for them to refresh page or to go read if last poster modified something.
Well most people don't refresh page and don't re-read last post anyway, so it's definitely a plus.
And if the poster explicitly wants to edit his original message (instead of adding new content) then his post should be marked as "edited"
so that everybody can see this, in which case there will be no automatic update of post such as Updated [timestamp here] explained before.
In which case (above example) the post would look like this:
1. Creating new post OR
2. Editing existing one
I think both cases are not good enough:
1. Creating new post means
- Sending additional email to thread subscribers, I'm sure not everybody likes to have
two or more mail notifications for one and same, or related thing, and might result in disabling this forum option.
- Will result in 2 posts by same poster which makes the thread less clean (or should I say, look like spamming the thread)
- Also results in boosting poster's message count just for updates.
2. Editing existing one results in warning:
This warning confirms this issue "for our information" that a newcomer should take care of something that could be easily automated.Editing? Your original post may have already been sent to others as an email notification. Feel free to make edits here, especially if it's only for spelling or grammar, but for significant changes it's a good idea to post a new reply to bring it to the attention of others.
My suggestion is when we post additional information, then the new content is automatically added to last post but in such a manner that the
original post is visibly "updated", for example my initial post:
Now we add new info by adding a new reply:This is original post
End result is single post (instead of 2 separate posts) like this:This is additional information added later
What's the major benefit here?This is original post
Updated [timestamp here]
This is additional information added later
1. The thread looks cleaner (less posts by same user)
2. Poster doesn't boost it's message count just for updating his post
3. email notification is optionally sent multiple times for each update, making our emails cleaner too.
4. Push notification is always generated for updates but never for edits, this makes the thread act like a live chat.
For the point 3, a user should be able to disable being notified via email for additional post updates by same user, this could be the default,
and if a user decides he wants to get mail notification for single post updates (those by same user to their own posts) why not?
For the point 4, push notifications can now show it's full and better potential, updates done to existing post should always result in push notification being generated,
while edits to post should not, if all thread participants are online, the benefit is that the thread would act as a live chat,
because for each update to last post the participants would be notified so there is no need for them to refresh page or to go read if last poster modified something.
Well most people don't refresh page and don't re-read last post anyway, so it's definitely a plus.
And if the poster explicitly wants to edit his original message (instead of adding new content) then his post should be marked as "edited"
so that everybody can see this, in which case there will be no automatic update of post such as Updated [timestamp here] explained before.
In which case (above example) the post would look like this:
I believe by using this approach the warning message should then be reworked to something like this:This is original post
This is additional information added later
Edited by USERNAME [timestamp here]
I'm sure you see a big difference and multiple benefits here?Editing? Your original post may have already been sent to others as an email notification. Feel free to make grammar and formatting edits here only, otherwise please create a new reply to auto update existing post and notify subscribers via email and push notifications about your update.