- Zealot Tony
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"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.
I was a finalist :P
Via a drop down arrow located directly to the left of the "About Me" drop down arrow, any past form of any given post via editing can be viewed by users. This would both enable easier moderation of people who attempt to hide signs of rule-breaking, as well as give users additional context about things that have changed in a post, especially in OPs that have long-winded suggestions and proposals that are edited over time.
I don't think it would benefit non-moderator users as far as its potential goes. One of reason that members would want to use it is to deem whether or not a post was report worthy before the editing took place, in which case deciding to proceed to either click the report button to pass it onto the moderator queue, or to not and continue as they originally where. For it to be effective, you'd have to prioritise more people willing to use the report button, because it doesn't seem to be used enough; the most prominent reason being apathetic to whether or not another user should receive an infraction for a specific post, being too lax, or because they themselves are not receiving some sort of positive incentive for doing so. The amount of people who'd use it positively would be proportional to the amount of people willing to use the report button.
When you also take into account the sheer number of edits made, it'd be difficult to think one can get overly paranoid about each and every edit (they can't, as they don't know the reasoning behind every one and would not have the time to check every one). You'd have to rely on reports made by users who saw the original post, were to come back, see the edit, and check to confirm the post before reporting it; which then asks the question as to why they didn't report the post in the first place.
The other cases seem to be a bit redundant rather than anything useful. I personally don't really see the point to viewing how an original post was years ago; other for nostalgic purposes, but then again I can't speak for everyone here.
Next to these former versions of the posts, is the avatar used by the user at the time of posting. This is less preferable due to loading-time problems and server strains from the loading of other pictures, etc. etc. but it sure would make all of those burritosenior threads a lot funnier a year or even a day later.
A screen capture would suffice for this reasoning; especially for something which happens once in a long period of time. Also, Crazzy, it's never as funny as the first time :P