I understand why, but IMHO, it better to just regulate the troublemakers then everyone else.
I’ve gone back several times, and revised my wip thread, clearing up things that I either posted incorrectly, or things that I later learned were wrong, and did properly later on.
I’ve also gone back and added an additional pic, to make a post clearer, when a few months later, someone was confused by something.
If you’ve got people playing shenannigans, just bump them, or suspend them for a length of time, instead of limiting the disscussion flow here for everyone else.
Many of the posts are wip or build tips, and those do change over time, and I’d hate to see someone follow some old advise in a thread, and then later on find out that a later post had a better/more correct way then what was previously posted.
Another board I used to frequent also locked down editing, and once they did, they lost about 25% of their traffic, because people because frustrated by then new restrictions that were put in place, just like this. Something to consider.
(I also no longer post there hardly at all anymore, because my communication abilities are IMHO more limited there now, and so many of my freinds left for unregulated pastures that there isn;t much reason to revist any longer.)
To “fix” that situation, they started recruiting more mods, and gave them complete edit freedom.. that made the situation even worst, because people there felt that they were playing “favorites”.
For build tips threads, or build wip threads, IMHO this is a bad move.
Not my board, not my decision, but my .02…
