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summary: Allow people to redact their own messages.
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assignee: illicitonion
created: 2015-01-21 16:02:27.0
creator: erikj
description: ''
id: '10971'
key: SYN-248
number: '248'
priority: '2'
project: '10000'
reporter: erikj
resolution: '1'
resolutiondate: 2016-01-06 02:33:02.0
status: '5'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-01-06 02:33:02.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '11071'
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actions:
- author: erikj
  body: This could be a per room option?
  created: 2015-01-21 16:02:38.0
  id: '11176'
  issue: '10971'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: erikj
  updated: 2015-01-21 16:02:38.0
- author: erikj
  body: |-
    My reservation with allowing this is that it may encourage HS's and clients to ignore redactions, thus decreasing their usefulness in other cases.

    Perhaps this should be done via moderation features? Or as a separate feature?
  created: 2015-05-07 11:46:26.0
  id: '11721'
  issue: '10971'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: erikj
  updated: 2015-05-07 11:46:26.0
- author: matthew
  body: I don't buy the idea that this encourages HS or clients to ignore redactions.  Letting users redact their own verbiage is just polite, imo.
  created: 2015-06-29 23:57:41.0
  id: '11942'
  issue: '10971'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2015-06-29 23:57:41.0
- author: matthew
  body: Also, if we let users in future edit their own messages (for s/foo/bar/ style alterations), i suspect we should let them redact them too.
  created: 2015-06-29 23:59:21.0
  id: '11943'
  issue: '10971'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2015-06-29 23:59:21.0
- author: matthew
  body: this happened.
  created: 2016-01-06 02:33:02.0
  id: '12520'
  issue: '10971'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2016-01-06 02:33:02.0