So, I recently ran into an issue which could become a bit of a war, and rather than let that happen I figured I'd ask here and see if I was in the wrong or what ought to be done.

So, the post in question is this:

post #1904707

As you can see, there is a very, very long story in the description. To me, the thing to be done in these cases is to collapse the story into a section, so that it isn't expanded by default. So I did that, and the original user reverted the edit, apparently preferring their story be expanded by default.

Now, as far as I know there's no official ruling here, and without something like that I'm reluctant to report the issue, send a PM, or revert back to the collapsed form, or really any other option at my disposal. And I definitely don't want it to become a war between two users reverting each other's edits.

The most reasonable thing seemed to be to come here and ask if there was some official policy, or whatever else.

So any information/advice is appreciated.

Clawdragons said:
So, I recently ran into an issue which could become a bit of a war, and rather than let that happen I figured I'd ask here and see if I was in the wrong or what ought to be done.

So, the post in question is this:

post #1904707

As you can see, there is a very, very long story in the description. To me, the thing to be done in these cases is to collapse the story into a section, so that it isn't expanded by default. So I did that, and the original user reverted the edit, apparently preferring their story be expanded by default.

Now, as far as I know there's no official ruling here, and without something like that I'm reluctant to report the issue, send a PM, or revert back to the collapsed form, or really any other option at my disposal. And I definitely don't want it to become a war between two users reverting each other's edits.

The most reasonable thing seemed to be to come here and ask if there was some official policy, or whatever else.

So any information/advice is appreciated.

Maybe they didn't know what you did thinking you removed he story, I put it back into a section (I'll only do this once as well) but I put it after the disclaimer, and the start of the story.

Imo it seems that this happened just because you two were editing the post at the same time. Some changes will revert if two people have the edit mode open at the same time for same post.

I don't think there's an official ruling but anything longer than a paragraph should be collapsed IMO.

hiekkapillu said:
Imo it seems that this happened just because you two were editing the post at the same time. Some changes will revert if two people have the edit mode open at the same time for same post.

I didn't think about that. Very possible.

I appreciate all the responses, by the way.