Why YSK: On reddit only the body was editable, so by knowing this you won’t need to delete or resubmit due to wrong URL, typo, etc.
time to get a post upvoted into oblivion and then replace it with a bbc porn gif
I always wondered why that didn’t happen more with AMAs. Like edit your question after they answer to make them look bad.
I mean they had people as big as sitting presidents do AMAs.
Trolls would do it frequently
Either post something nasty, get downvoted heavily, then edit it to something mildly political or whatever, screenshot it with the downvoted, and say “wow here’s proof reddit hates…”
Or do the inverse, post something guaranteed to get up votes and then edit it to something heinous
I don’t think this is a good thing, way too easy to abuse, spread misinformation, or sell a post to advertisers
Penis.
Edit - Penis.
Depending on the situation it can be a good or a bad thing.
Maybe the lemmy devs could implement some sort of versioning system for post, where you could see each edit (like commits) chronologically.
It would remove some of the scummy unintended uses people are already talking about
I’m a big fan of how Discourse handles it. If the post edit is larger than a threshold (iirc damerau-levenshtein distance) and after a short period of it’s creation, the diff is saved. Clicking the edit pencil on a post let’s you view all the revisions of a post
Moderators have the ability to “squash” the edits down and hide them, in the event that they’re removing pii or something like that
Amusingly, jedberg wrote the distance checking function into reddit ages ago, to make the edited mark less sensitive to minor typo corrections, but the patch seemingly got removed a short while after it was added. For a brief period, you could edit punctuation and small spelling mistakes and not get the edit badge
