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It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

topic posted Mon, June 8, 2009 - 7:45 AM by  		Share/Save/Bookmark
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I think many of the "discussions" on Tribe could be mitigated -and grammatical errors/typos (that make one feel stoopid) corrected! - if folks could edit or delete what they've written - like on f-book. Sometimes, after you've vented and seen your words up on the screen, ya just wanna take 'em back. Know what I mean?
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  • carolyn
    carolyn
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    Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

    Mon, June 8, 2009 - 8:34 AM
    Yes, we agree.
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    • Timbozo
      Timbozo
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      Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

      Mon, June 8, 2009 - 3:29 PM
      I disagree. I think there should be some personal social responsibility for what folks type and the content they post. It's frustrating that folks can't correct what they're saying...but even more dangerous to the actual gist and value of a conversation from an intellectual or historical point of view of folks can just go back and willy-nilly modify something they said earlier, possibly destroying context, altering meaning 180 degrees, etc. Take responsibility for spelling and grammar in advance. I try to but often fail...but I'd much rather have that then having sociopaths modifying a conversations original content and meaning, no matter how many typos they claim they just must correct.

      Right now, the fact that a thread originator can delete a thread they don't like or find has turned distasteful and that a tribe moderator can delete individual posts is a great trade off--it spreads responsibility to more than one individual for the direction editing can take...without modifying the actual text beyond the power of wholesale deletion. If each of us were able to modify what we'd said in the past here, how long do you think it would be before the trollers and the other miscreants out there, the nuts and the manipulators, had a field day with tribe. There is already enough problems with stupid people messing with others realities here. Let's not make it worse.
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        Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

        Mon, June 8, 2009 - 4:19 PM
        I agree and disagree, Timbo.

        Long before the internet came along for me, there were spats throughout my life. With siblings, with parents, with schoolmates, boyfriends, husband. Those spats or arguments were able to fade away in time. Words said in the heat of the moment often should fade away. And not be written in stone for all to see FOREVER.

        The words CAN serve as historical documentation, as you say. It can show what people do over time, it can be a warning or a blessing to have such words in total available. So much depends on context, however. The time frame, whatever else was going on in those people's lives. Which a casual observer may not know about and never see.

        Realize that we do not in general carry around a tape recorder with us and document every single exchange we have during the day. At least I don't carry around a tape recorder or a video camera.

        So I don't have a transcript of an interaction with a huffy sales clerk from 3 years ago. But there IS a transcript of an interaction with a huffy online person here on tribe. Lots of them. For everyone. All over the place.

        Do we really need that?

        For ideas and meaty discussions on fascinating topics, do-it-yourself projects that still have relevance today, people's reactions to tragedy or political upheaval, that's all cool.

        But the spats? I don't know if they have real value. Whenever I run across old spats, I get the old feelings. I can see what was said and it might still be hurtful. And my old words may still be equally hurtful. Do they really need to be etched in stone? Forever?
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        • Timbozo
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          Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

          Tue, June 9, 2009 - 12:11 AM
          There are those who want a record and those who don't. Generally the folks who don't want a record are the same ones who regularly embarrass themselves away from the Internet too. Seriously. Think about it. Or don't.
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            Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

            Tue, June 9, 2009 - 1:57 AM
            " Generally the folks who don't want a record are the same ones who regularly embarrass themselves away from the Internet too. "

            Got study?

            A group of idiots that hang out online and offline are still idiots, either place.

            But if you took a random sample of "people on the Internet" and then followed them, well, you'd be a stalker.

            I'm not quite sure how you'd get a random sample of people from online and then observe online and offline to see how they behave.

            Employers could do that. They can watch what their employees do. They could watch as mild-mannered Dick Clark Kent in accounting turns into a total perv online.

            I do embarrass myself a lot. I fall over things that are and aren't there, as well as walk into poles and walls. I do that online and offline.
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            • Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

              Tue, June 9, 2009 - 6:22 AM
              On ning, you have a limited time period to edit ~ I believe about 15 minutes. That allows you time to pick up typos and have second thoughts, but not enough time to change the world. Something like that I can see.
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              • Evolution

                Tue, June 9, 2009 - 8:09 AM
                If you want to document posted statements for argument purposes - or whatever purposes - perhaps one could copy and paste posts into a Word document, print them out, etc. for the record.

                However, I think the quality and content of what is communicated, and the interpersonal connections between Tribe members, would be enhanced (if not improved) if writers could refine, expanded upon, edit or delete their statements.
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                • Re: Evolution

                  Tue, June 9, 2009 - 8:50 AM
                  The whole copy paste thing is a total chore. I have done that for some of my more significant posts, but I don't see doing that for everything.

                  I agree that some sort of edit function makes sense. I don't think that I at all like the idea of editing way after the fact of posting. You can always say later that you changed your mind.
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  • Drav...
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    Re: It would be great if we could edit/delete posts on Tribe.

    Sat, June 13, 2009 - 5:47 PM
    It would also be nice if you could delete your own thread posts. Sometimes my opinion changes, or I realize I phrased something really badly and I want to undo the whole thing rather then "print a retraction" post.

    I'm still hoping they'll create a "next" and "previous" button for when we're reading our messages. It's a total pain to read a message and have to go back to the inbox, then read the next one, then go back to the inbox, then read the next one one, etc. It seems like such a basic thing, I'm a little confused why they don't have it. Is it really that hard to set something like that up?
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