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About creation of note version when resizing a note

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Type-kun

Is there really a need to record size change? I can do some note gardening from time to time, changing sloppily-sized notes to match the bubble-box or the text as close as possible, but then I end up being recorded in note history with note having exactly the same text as before. That can look like I'm stealing the credit for translation or something, especially when there's a lot of notes and original note author is not seen on the first page of note history; I'd rather not have the version recorded at all when resizing only. On the other hand, not recording the version is opening the floodgate for vandalism... Any thoughts on that? Am I just over-thinking things?

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Toks

Type-kun said:

I can do some note gardening from time to time, changing sloppily-sized notes to match the bubble-box or the text as close as possible, but then I end up being recorded in note history with note having exactly the same text as before.

See issue #2012: we could make it so that note history mentions that the note was resized/moved instead of looking totally unchanged.

Type-kun said:

That can look like I'm stealing the credit for translation or something, especially when there's a lot of notes and original note author is not seen on the first page of note history;

They can look in the "Note" column for the line that ends with .1 - that indicates when the note was initially created so it is possible to know who the original translator is.

Type-kun said:

On the other hand, not recording the version is opening the floodgate for vandalism...

Correct, if it wasn't recorded then someone could move all the notes to a corner and make them really small. This would make them unreadable and we wouldn't know who the vandal is. Edit: Or rather, it would appear as though the vandal was whoever last edited the note before the vandal.

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Type-kun

z905844 said:

you have answered your own question.

Hate it when that happens, I want opinions! :3
Still, there are some things to think about, at least. I just don't want to take any credit for things I didn't do.

Toks said:

They can look in the "Note" column for the line that ends with .1 - that indicates when the note was initially created so it is possible to know who the original translator is.

What bothers me is when there's 20+ notes, you don't see that .2 changed nothing but size unless you search for .1 and compare.

Toks said:

See issue #2012: we could make it so that note history mentions that the note was resized/moved instead of looking totally unchanged.

That actually sounds like a plan; can we also indicate that text was not changed?

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Toks

Type-kun said:

What bothers me is when there's 20+ notes, you don't see that .2 changed nothing but size unless you search for .1 and compare.

Though with an extra click you could go to the page to view the history for any one note. It's rare for a single note to have more than 20 versions.

Type-kun said:

That actually sounds like a plan; can we also indicate that text was not changed?

That makes sense. In place of the body it could just say (body not changed)

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Type-kun

Toks said:

That makes sense. In place of the body it could just say (body not changed)

Thought about that a bit further - if done that way, we can end up with 20 (resized, body not changed) in note history with no chance to guess which note version belongs to which note... Appending that phrase in gray text after body bight be optimal, perhaps? Something like that: http://puu.sh/hbc7k.png , which would just say (resized) if text was changed.

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