Sometimes people have useful ideas, but give them in a long, boring, hard to read form. Can we allow users to edit each others’ content?
You need a lot of shared agreement for that working well. Wikipedia technically allows users to edit each others content in discussions but has strong social norms against doing so for reasons of someone expressing themselves in a way that’s too long. On the other hand StackOverflow does allow for editing of questions and answers.
When it comes to a forum like this, it’s important to incentivise people who write posts. Part of the incentive is that people control the posts they write to say what they want to say. A system that works like Google Docs where the author can choose to accept or deny requests for change would likely work better.
You need a lot of shared agreement for that working well. Wikipedia technically allows users to edit each others content in discussions but has strong social norms against doing so for reasons of someone expressing themselves in a way that’s too long. On the other hand StackOverflow does allow for editing of questions and answers.
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When it comes to a forum like this, it’s important to incentivise people who write posts. Part of the incentive is that people control the posts they write to say what they want to say. A system that works like Google Docs where the author can choose to accept or deny requests for change would likely work better.
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