"Super-Maintainer" Option For Communities

[understandastar]

Title
"Super-Maintainer" Option For Communities

Short, concise description of the idea
Offer a "Super-Maintainer" option for communities in which Maintainers can edit the content of any post made.

Full description of the ideaI am a member of a large LiveJournal community. This community has ~200 posts, 300+ posts appearing in the moderation queue,

Comments

[azurelunatic]

This is similar to http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/790175.html but involves more control to the maintainer.

[aveleh]

I like to see the embeds in moderation queues fixed and a suggestion about making it easier to ensure that lj-cuts are correct.

I don't ever want someone else on LiveJournal to have the ability to edit my posts, regardless of if there is an edited tag, and especially if it doesn't provide a diff (summary) of what was edited. (I know and love other forums that do this, but it is completely unexpected behaviour on LiveJournal.)

[snakeling]

+1

[turlough]

+1

[kightp]

+1

[vvalkyri]

this might be a good compromise. LJcut until the poster can fix.

[shaebay]

I agree completely with the above comment. I like the idea of the maintainer being able to cut the entire post, but editing? No way.

[jewelianna]

I like this-- and I think adding a "edited by maintainer" line, much like the edited comment disclaimer that is already attached.

Also, it should be clearly stated in the community profile/application page that this is possible.

[ursamajor]

I think for greater transparency in editing, you would need to maintain the ability for people to see what the original entry looked like. Perhaps this could be accomplished by appending a non-deletable link to the originally submitted content?

The abuse potential is pretty high, even with the timestamp, mostly because people don't tend to back up their submissions to moderated comms, but I think this could help alleviate it a bit more.

[worldserpent]

This sounds very useful, but has the potential problem of a rogue maintainer doing things like writing in offensive messages, or a maintainer trying to get rid of something which they think is inappropriate, but the poster interprets as censorship.

If this is implemented though, it should also say who has edited it, and show the edits.

(I guess what could fix this is, maybe if LJ cut or code is broken (as LJ can detect this), that LJ warns us when we post? Like it says "HTML/code is broken" on the "you have successfully posted" screen. This wouldn't solve the broken movie thing though. I suppose they could create a feature where posts are submitted through the moderators (say like in a form?), and would be "approved" and posted by a mod, but that might mean that the original poster couldn't edit it. Is it even possible to allow two people to edit the same post in LJ?)