Currently the only indicators for any content (question, discussion, article, comment) in the frontend are the publish date and time, as well as the author’s username. There is no way for anyone to see if (and when) content has been updated after the initial publishing. inSided communities rely on the users’ manual addition of something like (“edited on 11.02. to add information”) within the text body.
We propose that any piece of content gets an additional info field below the text body that shows the following information if content has been edited after publishing:
- phrase “Last edited”
- timestamp with date and time
- last edit’s username
- optional: number of edits made in total
- optional: reason of edit (e.g. “Fixed a link”, “added information”, “typo”)
The benefits are:
- better transparency
- make it harder to manipulate content without anyone noticing
- less effort for users and moderators to manually add this information
This is one idea of how it could look like:
