Allow others to edit your entries

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Title:
Allow others to edit your entries

Area:
entries, communities

Summary:
Communities tend to have moderators, and it's often very difficult for everyone to do their job if they can't edit the entries of other moderators on the community they're both in. Community owners should be able to designate who can edit what entries in their communities.

Description:
As an owner of a number of communities on LiveJournal, I've found the need to create a dummy account so that other moderators' personal accounts don't get confused with their moderator duties. If I make a post about the rules of the community, another moderator can't later edit that post, which makes it very difficult to keep a community up-to-date. Rather than causing people to create dummy accounts just so a group of people can have access to it and edit everything as "one" person, why not give the people who are already moderators of a community the ability to edit entries?

I see this as only being something implemented for communities, not personal journals.

Just as we have the option to designate someone's access in a community, why not say what they have access TO DO? If someone is a moderator, you could give them access to edit entries by other moderators (not other posters). Perhaps the original poster could also be notified, and a footnote indicating who last edited the entry and when. Alternatively, someone could make suggested edits, but they wouldn't actually be implemented without the permission of the original author.

I'm hoping that this might make management of larger communities, with multiple moderators, easier, especially since you need to use up an invite code to create a "dummy account." Plus, dummy accounts inflate Dreamwidth's user base unnecessarily. Fellow moderators of a community already have the same access as one another, except for the entry-editing part.

I know some people might dislike this since personal content could be edited, which is why I think it should be something people opt-into, not something forced on all communities/moderators.

Poll #854

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (24.3%)

Should be implemented with changes.
21 (56.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (18.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)