Virily has been magnanimous in letting us edit published posts which is a good thing. Sometimes one sees howlers that are not noticed before publishing no matter how careful one is. Previewing and playing the quiz by the one who creates it also helps but enough is not enough.
Sadly there is the possibility of misuing this feature as Admin will not see it before it is republished.
Users therefore could only perhaps edit those posts that have just been published to edit errors if any and not the old ones as, if the old ones are edited they reappear as new posts.
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Should published posts that are subject to edit be approved by Admin even if they come from verified users?
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Yes
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No
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I think its fair that all group of users needs approval.
just to be fair
I agree with you. There could be misuse.
I decided not to edit old posts. I don’t understand why I would do that.
I will only do it if there are errors the moment they get published
That’s how I do it. I correct my mistakes immediately.
I do not understand what the sense to overload admin with already approved posts? My old posts are missing photos, I do not edit any texts, only add new photos that they would not look weird. Does it need approval?
May be users could restrict to only correcting what is missing.
I mostly take polls and quizzes on here. I’ve seen plenty of quizzes, which have errors in them; sometimes quite a few errors. If that is the case, why the need for admin approval when they get published with errors anyway?
Errors can now be rectified by users themselves but one should not edit in a way that could lead to violations.
Misusing the facility is not right but I have not used this yet. I would if I spotted an obvious spelling mistake.
I have done it just to correct errors which most of the time are due to the site templates
It is a nice addition. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
The fear is users could misuse the facility
Allowing people to edit posts have lead to major problems in site I have worked with. On one site people have edited their posts and left just alphabets. It becomes a pain to keep approving edited posts when there the staff /moderators numbers are low on a site. I would just like being able to edit the typos in my responses.
But as long as the facility exists law abiding users can make use of it for genuine errors that they see the minute their post is published.
I am quite new at writing articles so there’s still a lot I don’t really understand here yet but I’m thankful I can edit at all.
Editing the minute the post it is published is what I would recommend.
I think published posts that have been just posted and need to be edited should be edited and reposted right away but older posts that need editing should be admin approved after editing so that they don’t pop up suddenly as new posts again,
I just edited this post that did not have ‘No’ in the poll (lol)
I have noticed something lately when I do polls. When I am ready to check it out and the questions show yes and no and one question just yes I don’t add no because the last time I did that I had one yes and two nos one no went in automatically lol
May be a preview could help This post I was in a hurry to publish as it was lying there for days due to my dongle issue and I had not gone through the preview process. .
Sorry I think differently and so let’s agree to disagree.
I said there is a possibility of misuse and so Admin should approve of such edits.
That sounds like a reasonable compromise.
After all users too are responsible for the site to survive and so misusing the facility is not right.