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mbehr Novice
mbehr
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Aug 7, 2008
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Jul 8, 2009 10:44 AM

Discussion/Document/Poll Editing

When a user creates a poll, discussion, or document, he/she may edit the question, content, etc. and any other user's comments. This seems highly problematic. For example, if the poll was "Do you agree with Obama," and the users vote 99% Yes... the creator can then go back and change the question to "Do you disagree with Obama"... and the poll results stay 99% Yes.

 

Also, for comments on any of these items... if I created the piece of content, I can edit another user's comment. So, if I leave a comment on a Document, the Document creator can change my response (w/o me knowing, thereby putting words in mouth).

 

What's the use case here? Why are creators allowed to edit their question or others' comments midstream in collaboration? Is there any way to stop this functionality in the Admin Console?

 

Thanks,

Mike

Tags: discussions, documents, polls, editing
Karl Cyr Jive Employee
Karl Cyr
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Jul 8, 2009 12:20 PM in response to: mbehr
Re: Discussion/Document/Poll Editing

Hi Mike,

 

At this time, that is how the permissions are structured. The design is that content owners should be able to administer their own content. Yes, there is potential for abuse as you describe, but the assumption is that the community will be monitored by fellow members and System Administrators. There is potential for abuse any time content is posted to the system. In reality, the far more common use case would be that a poll creator would discover s/he made a typographical or semantic error on the poll, and return to edit the poll to fix this mistake at a later time.

 

Regards,
Karl

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