Females in the community.

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/24/2016 11:01 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 09:16:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> One possibility is to have the forum software delay actually posting
>> it for 5 minutes, and you can have second thoughts.
>
> That's actually an interesting idea.
>
> Some places on the web (e.g. StackOverflow comments) only allow you to
> edit your posts/comments a few minutes after posting them, so a design
> such as the following would hopefully be less alien:
>
> 1. Upon posting from the web interface, save the post and make it
> immediately viewable to all web interface users (which is the majority).
> 2. Allow the user to edit or delete their post during a grace period
> (e.g. 5 minutes).
> 3. Once the grace period expires, send the final version off to
> NNTP/mailing lists.
>
> Could be configurable (on by default), too. Would require some internal
> restructuring, and adding additional validation for things currently
> taken care of by the NNTP server, but seems certainly doable.

FWIW I like to post and just see it there. On the rare occasions I make 
a mistake that could make my post misunderstood I cancel the message 
within seconds and repost it with the fix. (BTW would be nice to have 
the ability to cancel a message from the Web interface.) If we allow 
post editing we should allow viewing the history. Generally it's not 
something I've been missing. -- Andrei