Give Players Permission to Edit Posts

[Cypress Creek Elites]

There are a lot of clubs or similar organizations where one or multiple players keep track of lists of things- members, scores, and whatnot- and in the event that whoever made the posts isn't online, they cannot be updated (and also cannot be changed from a side account).

I think this would be easier to manage by giving an option to allow specific other players to edit the posts.
To prevent abuse, both accounts would need to be at least six months old and have already completed the three/five/whatever approved forum posts needed to post without approval.

There could be a text box under "Options" in the topic editor where you would type or paste the player IDs of those you want to give access to, with a check box to toggle on/off. The post's original creator and the admins would be the only ones able to access the toggle and permissions.

Players would get a notification and have to confirm access in order to start editing the topic; this prevents someone from making a post and enabling someone else to edit it with the intent of framing them for offensive statements, out of their control.

Editors would have to be listed somewhere; I'm not sure where the best place would be though.

I'm not sure how complicated this would be to implement, but if it's not too bad, I think it would be a great QOL improvement for the forums.

[BlackOak2]

Support. I've done so before, and still would like such an option.

[GabbysPets]

Revisiting this as I forgot I didn't give support.

I also agree, with the Rare Breed Repopulation Community, it would be really helpful for me to be able to permit the leaders to edit the post so that whenever I am not on, a player can still be accepted in.

The same thing goes for Community Reminders, if we permit certain trustable users to edit said reminders, then we can keep some information up to date, or correct misinformation.

[EclipticEnd]

I also support this, and add in that it'd be great to be able to create "Teams" or "Groups" (perhaps under settings, similar to how Friends/Foes are set up) where you can give the groups custom names and add players to them. This would be good to keep track of players in the different breeding communities that one might join.

The ability to then select that group for editing permissions would be wonderful, especially if there's multiple players involved. That'd possibly streamline things a bit so that you don't have to search up IDs or exact usernames. That'd theoretically allow everyone in that group to edit the message, though. Having the ability to also do usernames or IDs would be great when there's only one or two individuals that you want to give permissions to.

I know that when something's edited, a little subnote appears under the message that says something akin to Last edited by [username] on date, edited # times total though now that I think about it I'm not sure that it only shows for the person who edited the message or for everyone. I've never actually paid much attention to that little detail.

Anyway, perhaps that could be made to show who has permission to alter the message and can be made visible to everyone? It'd be gently out of the way while still offering the required information.