Proposal: Chronolalia
In the rule Fair Play, to the end of the bullet point which starts “A Snail should not edit the “Entry Date” field of a blog post”, add:
, except as permitted by the rule Date and Time Tracking in the Appendix.
Add the following as a new subrule to the Official Posts subrule to the Gamestate Tracking rule in the Appendix, called Date and Time Tracking:
A Snail may amend the Entry Date field of an Official Post that they have authored, or the Jury may amend the Entry Date field of any Official Post, only under the following conditions and only in the following ways:
* If the Official Post has been made visible on the blog within the preceding 15 minutes, but it has a timestamp that is greater than one hour old, then the Entry Date field may be amended to reflect the actual time of posting to within 15 minutes, in which case the revised time is considered to be the time at which it was posted;
* If an Official Post is older than 7 days but needs to remain Sticky on the front page of the Blog then its Entry Date may be edited to the time of the edit, to within a minute, with the original date and time at which it was posted added to the Commentary or flavour text field of that post, in which case the original time of posting remains the time at which it was posted.
ais523:
Why the restriction on a post needing to be more than an hour old before you can change the entry date to match the actual time of posting? If someone is writing a post for 59 minutes, that seems like a situation in which editing the entry date to be more accurate is reasonable.