I think we should revisit this decision, in light of the finally-implemented Leader ability to edit topic titles:
Note that this improved title (which I completely approve of, by the way, and is an excellent example of a trust level 3 ability used well) is not the title that the topic started out with. You can see that there was an edit via the pencil at the upper right…
… but you can’t actually view it, because edit visibility is disabled:
You also can’t see that I edited the category to Meta from Dizzy, because that’s another revision that is hidden from your view.
One thing we could do, but it might be overly complicated, is only show public revisions in the case where someone other than the author edited a post.
But I have to say, I personally think this is over-thinking it. Public revisions hurt nobody (or at least nobody can show me an actual case where there was a problem rather than a general vague concern), whereas hiding public revisions is … kind of actively dangerous in my opinion.
