Posted on 2009-12-07 17:05 UTC by Josh Triplett. Status: Under consideration, Categories: maemo.org.
When starting a thread, it represents a fairly common forum practice to edit the initial post in the thread to contain the current status or similar. However, doing so does not bump the thread; thus, to make the thread visible again, the initial poster would have to additionally post a new message to the thread with the same information (or a reference to the newly edited initial post).
Talk thread for discussing this proposal: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=415217
Posted on 2009-12-07 17:06 UTC by Josh Triplett.
Editing any post in the thread should bump the thread, unless the edit has a "minor edit" checkbox checked.
Posted on 2009-12-07 20:33 UTC by Josh Triplett.
On the assumption that people don't necessarily care about updates to any random post in the thread, but do want to see updates to the post that started the thread, edits to the first post in the thread should bump the thread, but no other edits should.
A "minor edit" checkbox would probably still prove helpful, so that the topic starter can fix typos and such without bumping the thread.
