Rod Welch wrote:
>
> What is the rationale for replacing...
>
"Replacing" entails using the new version instead of
the old *and* including a link that takes you to the
old.
If you don't replace, you will indeed be inundated by
a proliferation of versions. Replacement is a
necessity. It's also the only way to eliminate
extraneous parts of the discussion, unless you delete
them (which we all agree is not desirable).
We may need something else, as well: some concept of
a "Candidate Reduction", where the new version is
offered as a replacement for the old, and only becomes
"official" when accepted. It's something to think about
in a fully-collaborative setting, like a discussion
of this nature.
For a "document" that accretes comments, though, issuing
a new version is a normal activity -- and the activity for
which comments were solicited in the first place. In that
case, though, issuing a new version must be restricted to
the document's author(s).
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