Thread:Feedback/Editing posts/Gmaxwell

Why does making a simple link fix to someone elses message bump the thread to the top? The message continues to display the original timestamp (IMO the right thing) but I'm confused by the bump.

I suspect that the "edited" notice is the kind of UI element which is best expressed through an icon or very small notice in an effort to be 'passively informative'. For example, rather than the text under the timestamp we could make the history link for the message read History(1;2) signifying one edit by the author, two edits by third parties.

The fact that some link was fixed in an edit or other triviality like that simply isn't important enough to get such prominent placement. Since we assume good faith we should assume that there is nothing inherently dangerous about a modified message (anyone causing trouble by editing messages written by themselves or others is going to get caught regardless the notice prominence). It's also confusing that you can't click on the edited notice and discover what the edit was, but combining the edit notice with the history link would resolve that neatly.