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Editing Proposals

Richard D. Bartlett Sat 4 Aug 2012 10:24PMPublicSeen by 106

Richard D. BartlettSat 4 Aug 2012 10:24PM

Being allowed to edit proposals seems to be more doing more harm than good, in my experience. There may be a way to rebuild the editing feature later on down the track but right now it contributes to bad process.

Remove 'edit proposal' feature

proposal by Richard D. Bartlett Closed Mon 6 Aug 2012 9:53PM

The 'edit proposal' button should be disabled once the first votes have been cast.

[I just edited the proposal as a test.]

Results

Option	Votes	% of votes cast	% of eligible voters
Agree	4	57	0
Abstain	2	29	0
Disagree	1	14	0
Block	0	0	0
Undecided	893		99

7 of 900 votes cast (0% participation)

Joshua Vial
Sun 5 Aug 2012 10:32PM

I can live with either disabling it or just having the alert aaron mentioned.

Jon Lemmon
Sun 5 Aug 2012 10:51PM

To me this seems quite harsh on the users and potentially frustrating if someone made a typo or just wants to make a couple sentences more clear. It doesn't seem like a black-and-white issue to me. I'm happy for someone to change my mind though.

Alanna Irving
Mon 6 Aug 2012 12:27AM

This needs to happen, otherwise people will be shown as having a position on something they haven't had a chance to consider because it's been changed since they voted

Benjamin Knight
Mon 6 Aug 2012 2:03AM

Definitely keen for this to happen! But very open to hearing alternative ideas for getting the same result

vivien maidaborn
Mon 6 Aug 2012 9:17AM

feels like we are putting a huge amount of energy into a 'high risk' low liklihood of happening category. Seems to me everyone agrees its just priioritising it

Aaron Thornton
Mon 6 Aug 2012 9:23PM

As long as the change is recorded and transparent. I dont see this removing admin functionality as an issue

Aaron Thornton
Mon 6 Aug 2012 9:26PM

Rethink

Make edits more prominent

proposal by Richard D. Bartlett Closed Tue 7 Aug 2012 11:22AM

When a proposal has been edited, the changes should be announced in some way, e.g. in the timeline, in the proposal itself, as a notification, and/or optional email.