Leave the power point system alone with respect to editing pages. Nothing is broken there yet so let’s not bother fixing it. If folks don’t want to make a correction or edit because it lacks power then so be it. It is a good idea to reduce the power points for photos by 90% and to change how votes affect page scores, but those are different discussions. Also leave alone the technical/nontechnical route issue. I am not sure what exactly that is trying to resolve, as you can already filter perfectly well by route grading.
Incorporate a section at the end of each page that any user can edit, which can contain corrections, current conditions, additions, etc… Note that this would not be a thread like we see for comments on TRs, or should it contain comments about the page (no ‘great page so and so!’), but just content that is more integrated onto the main page. I think it is obvious it would not apply to certain object types like albums and TRs. Owners would not have a choice to display this section, it would always be there. There would be a link at the top of this section that would direct users to another screen where they have full edit access to ALL the content in it. Here are my original posts on the topic which I think explain it well…
mrchad9 wrote:Here is a site suggestion... perhaps there should be a section at the end of each object submission that is editable by the users. Not all the other sections by the author, just one at the bottom. This would be a bit more integrated into the submission than the comments or corrections (which are not even visible on the main page if it is a route or mountain page). In this section people could post more visible comments, corrections, or links to their external TRs.
mrchad9 wrote:My suggestion was less complicated from the above IMHO (from an implementation standpoint). The objective being to keep it as simple as possible in hopes of it being done as soon as possible.
Currently when creating a page the author can create 1, 2, 3, etc... sections for the content. The website automatically adds one last section for images... it isn't up to the page creator. My thought is just between this and the author created sections there be one more section, for SP community contributions and additions to the page. This makes it immediately visible to all who look at or print the page, without clicking any other correction links.
For all the members they would see the 'edit page' option at the top just like the author, except when they click it they only have the option for the one section that is for all members. The author can edit that section too... thus allowing him to delete something if he chooses to incorporate it into his writeup.
So yes, since the page author has access to the section just like anyone else, they can delete stuff from it (assuming it is out of date or they put it in their writeup). Other members can delete stuff from this area too. They might do so if conditions from a year ago are still listed.
Also, the page owner should have a means to see if someone has edited this section. They could be notified the same way we see comments on our pages, just a little page edits box on our profile that always displays when and who last made an edit (with an option for email notification and more visible than the content currently in the box showing objects you can edit- maybe it is just a modification of this existing profile box).
Some members have suggested this section be a different color. Well, the section would have the same formatting capabilities as other sections, so if you wanted your edit to be in a different color and knew the html code you could do just that.
I also think in this section it is unnecessary to automatically show the contributor. That would be complicated in this location and a better way would be for users to type their name next to their addition should they choose to do so.
I think the above is the first step. The next is allowing edits of other page content. I strongly prefer a system that allows any user to submit edits to any section, which then must be approved or rejected by the owner within 45 days before they are visible, otherwise they get shown automatically after the waiting period. In this system it would be good if the person’s name were shown by their addition, which the owner could remove if it was a simple grammar one. The owner should also be able to revert the edit later if they missed the 45 day window. I think the suggestions that offer greater access to pages, even if the owner is OK with it, carry too much risk (owners relying heavily on others to create the content, throwing up incomplete pages for others to fill, etc…).