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 was happy when I realised this.
It’s almost like we can do things the way we want because we want to. Strange feeling after the bullshit constraints of facebook, Reddit, Twitter, tumbler…
Penis.
Edit - Penis.
I read (on Reddit, to be fair) that upvotes/downvotes are public on some instances?
…and that users of those instances can even see votes on other instances where votes are private?
Can anyone confirm? I can’t find any other source to corroborate.
I’ve noticed some comments/posts have the number of up/down shown but not others. I just wrote it off as a bug.
I’m pretty sure it’s an admin option in instances to enable or not things like downvotes, or show the up and down numbers, or just the total etc.
I wonder if it’s just that they only show the two numbers if a comment has downvotes? It would be a weird UI choice but I can see it happening, since technically you’re not missing any info, it’s just that the user doesn’t know about the information they’re not missing unless they understand this detail. It would be clearer if they were shown on all posts.
EDIT: Yeah that’s the answer, look, you can test it by downvoting your own comment (or I guess someone else’s but don’t do that you meanie poos):
EDIT 2: This is now old info, it looks like this has been changed in the latest update lol. Fast-changing times we’re living in.
It’s not only a kbin thing. Votes from Lemmy are still not anonymous. You can see who downvoted and upvoted any post from kbin, even if the voters were on Lemmy.
Even if kbin was to hide this information, it would still be sent from instance to instance. It’d be harder to see, but still accessible.
(From what I understand anyways)
I read through some of that link and the problem doesn’t seem likely to be fixed anytime soon. But I didnt read it fully because it didn’t look like it was going anywhere.
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
