Player Features and Ideas Discussion

To hide the fact that it was a scam in the first place. To cover their tracks. To remove the evidence. To ensure that the logs really do show nothing.

And it would take twelve seconds to push scams so deep into the history of such a window that they'd never be found...

I have a hard time believing that you are naive enough to believe that this would not be used for malice.
The ability to harass some one and then cover your tracks could get out of control, even with a history. How far back is a reasonable edit history?

So what, 20 entries a page?

How many people are going to go back multiple pages to find the one scam edit?

This is still about finding the post and not how many edits of said post are cached.

So how about a spelling correction instead? I have one since I run on Linux and it underlines all my spelling errors.

Anyone else with any inputs on this?

I still think that it would be neat to be able to have this ability with an 'Edit History' ofc.

Alot of things in EVE is not simple to do, so that shouldn't be an excuse to not do it, just because it can be challenging to do.

And could you explain why it wouldn't be needed?

The EVE forum, Slack, Facebook and many other social medias and stuffs like that allows you to edit what you have posted. So i don't see why we can't have the same in EVE ingame in the chats.

Nope, this would be actively detrimental to the game in one of two major ways.

Either CCP does a quick job of it and you've just given scammers a massive tool and everyone can no longer trust un-logged chat records because that person's response could be to something other than what is currently written there. If you said something then live with the consequences, if you made a typo that's what the asterisk is four.

*for.

Alternatively CCP takes a ton of time that could be spent on any number of other, more useful, things to develop a rich chat client with tons of features and smart editing that clamps down on scam-edits, locks posts after various conditions are met, and various other things. But that would be a massive waste of time and money on CCP's part because they're not a chat-client company they're an internet-spaceships company and, despite what some alliances seem to think, you can't kill someone with local.

You are inccorect, even with this new "feature" you cannot recall and email that has been sent. A quote from your linked page.

"The feature is really quite simple; it basically configures a delay on your Send button. Instead of firing off your emails when you click Send, it holds them for however long you configure, and then sends them. This way, if you realize you sent something you didn’t mean to, you can recall it."

In reality all this feature does is implement a delay between when you press the send button and when the software actually sends the email on it's way through the internet to it's destination, but once it has actually begun it's trip there is no way to recall or edit it.

-1 to this idea.
Chat logs are often the only thing a player has access to that would prove a legitimate case of harassment, or other violation of the TOS. Allowing for a person to go back and edit their chat entries would allow them to conceal this type of activity for this reason alone your idea is a really bad one. No I do not care how often this may happen, the simple fact that it "could" happen if CCP implemented your idea is enough to say no to your idea.

I am going to catch heat for this but I simply do not care. We have become a worldwide society that relies on our computers to do the thinking for us. Instead of taking a few moments to read BEFORE we post we want to be able to recall things AFTER we post. Perhaps it is my age, but I grew up in a time when you could not simply recall a comment made and you often suffered a slap in the face as a result of an inappropriate comment. One either lived with a perpetually bruised and sore face, or one learned to think before speaking. How does this apply to EvE and our chat channels? simply consider the fallout from a poorly worded chat to be the replacement for that slap in the face, accept that you made the mistake (own it as they say now), learn from it and think BEFORE you write, and review BEFORE you send and most of those problems you want to solve by editing a chat will never happen to start with.