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I am concerned about people editing past posts and changing the meaning, when their beliefs have changed.
It is OK to edit grammar, spelling or even making a point clearer. No problem there. But there are a number of repercussions from changing the meaning.
E.g., If I agreed with a persons posts and said things like “good one” and “I agree with that”, then that could create a false picture once the post was changed. It could make some believe that I or whomever was backing the edition, when in reality it was the original text that was being commented on.
For this reason I am going to ask people not to do this in the future; rather to make a new post explaining why a persons beliefs have changed. I do not think it is fair on the others who answer or encourage in response to the original post.
Worst case scenario could be that others think that your new belief is the belief that you are encouraging and backing. Also the answers given for an edited post, may render it senseless or out of context. Thereby wasting the time of those who answered the original post.
I think it is better to stick by what we have said and explain why we have changed it, as this is more helpful in everyway for the readers and seems to me to be a more honest approach.
Remember that it is not about our reputation, but we should be servants of the truth. Serving truth will better be served by remaining honest about our words or explaining why we no longer believe something we said in the past.
In order to stop this practice, the site now records when editions were made to a post. Backups are also done regularly and a post can be restored to they way they were originally, in order to keep the discussion relevant and in context, if necessary.
I am sure that you can see the reason for this.
After all what we said yesterday that we may regret cannot be changed, but is still recorded.
Matthew 12:36
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.thx
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