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HELP! Way to view original post after edited?

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Kat9119:
Got someone on my forum talking smack about me. They edited their posts but my mods swear he said some very bad stuff about me. No proof other then their word...and well they are new. So any way to see the original text?

Krash.:

No, the original post is replaced in the database with the edited text  You can, however, change membergroup permissions to disallow post edits.

Kat9119:

--- Quote from: Krash. on May 07, 2011, 12:57:32 AM ---
No, the original post is replaced in the database with the edited text  You can, however, change membergroup permissions to disallow post edits.



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Think I might have to do that it just sucks :(

Krash.:

You can move the offender(s) into a separate membergroup, so the rest of your members are not affected.

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen:

--- Quote from: Kat9119 on May 07, 2011, 12:38:13 AM ---Got someone on my forum talking smack about me. They edited their posts but my mods swear he said some very bad stuff about me. No proof other then their word...and well they are new. So any way to see the original text?

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The reason SMF doesn't keep the original posts is because that could soon become a huge amount of mostly unneeded data on the database.
What you could do, is limit the edit time of posts - For example, allow people just one or two minutes to edit their posts for typos.

Then, activate a recycle board and allow people to delete their posts if they wish, instead of editing them - this way your moderators, and users can safely delete posts, and you would still find them in the recycle board if you needed to see what they contained. :)

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