I'm just responding to an answer Zubaz gave at the top of this page saying that it doesn't do what he said...

Knowing waht was changed is a great deterrent for trolls.

If the OP starts a thread and there are negative responses,sometimes the OP is going to go back and alter the post. Then any replies afterwards often make no sense or make the replies seem foolish. The ability to "view edits" will discourage the OP from simply denying posting the original content or altering it to his/her liking.

Am I making any sense?

Yes, you are... but my non-moderating status is certainly very happy for those responsible for bringing order & reasonable truth (as in control over false assumptions) into, sometimes, outright hypocrisy shown by Trolls or people with bad agendas & unconstructive manners.

Game over, AFAIC.

 Now everyone will see my bad spelling and at times worse grammar.

So...I'm confused here.  You like the view_edits thing due to the effect it'll have on trolls, but you seem to think it's inherently wrong to see the OP's edits?  Somehow I think you'd welcome the sight of the OP's edits for that very reason.

I'm cornfused...

It's just one of those times again where i am being "misinterpreted" for me not having used the proper phrasing, sorry.

We certainly can view any OP's edits, but this feature is terribly MORE useful to site managers & moderators than any of us.

Correct?

Right...but I cannot for some reason see that little View Edits button on a OP I know has been edited.  That's what I was hinting to above...I only see that View Edit button on a thread I had started and had edited.

Firefox 3 for any interested.  Scratch that...also not seeing it in IE7

BTW, yeah..my UT was on the fritz I guess.

In the end, moderators may have to do less (not that we have to do much  . . . because this *is* a great community).

You shouldn't be trying to encourage eets to post, you know how much he likes compliments.

He'd just make you work for it.

So says the spellmeister.We live with your mistakes every day ZubaZ.

I think he meant that now that the public can see their edits, anything they post now will be seen, not just what they edit to....and thus people may think twice before posting a nasty reply.

... and be extra-careful when hitting the "Post Reply" button, i might add. Let's take a few seconds here to check what's in the previous phrase. Yep, no typos. No further edits necessary.

Click.

Typos aren't that big a deal though. Who cares about them. Besides, it doesn't highlight each letter individually, so someone would actually have to try and spot the typos in the view edits too.