I wish there was a time allowance for editing comments without showing that the comment was edited. Something like 30 seconds would be enough to correct a misspelled or missing word. Most of my comments that are marked as edited are simple typos that I edit within a few seconds of posting them.
Edit: because my social anxiety leaks into text and I have a desperate need to over share and over explain so people don’t mistake my thought or meaning.
I’d rather have it be known why I’ve edited my message, rather than leave people to question if I’d edited the body or meaning of my message. In my case it’s an accredited science lab thing, but I imagine lots of corporate and legal professionals do the same.
Supporting your position through things created in your brain is called “explaining yourself”, or more specifically “explaining the rationale behind your position”.
In my opinion it’s not useless at all. Lemmy marks the comments as edited, but that’s just to show the fact that it was edited. But if you add the reason why you edited, that makes it a whole lot more transparent.
Sometimes it could happen that I see a great comment full of great ideas from a great user, and it could be lengthy as well. Then later I go back to see the reactions, and I see the comment was edited. If I don’t know what was edited on it, then I have to read the whole comment again. But if it’s clearly stated that only typos were fixed, then I don’t bother with re-reading the comment.
Lemmy needs to get rid of edit if you edit within 1 min. Often you’ll see a typo after you post and you have to edit. There should be a grace period like reddit.
As long as as you don’t use ETA as an abbreviation for “edited to add”, you are ok. That shit was suddenly everywhere on reddit, god darn kids and them fancy ambiguous acronyms!!! shakes fist at clouds
I know it’s a lot more complexity, but I wish we just had edit history for everything. You edited your comment? Easy enough for someone to go back and see that you didn’t change your meaning. You changed your opinion? Edit your post’s content and people will still know the context of the replies.
It’s just text but I’m sure I’m underestimating it, especially at social media scale.
Anyone smarter than me know how much storage (I assume that’s most of the problem) overhead we’re talking with a version control system?
Given, we may not have a version control system that is appropriately designed for social media yet, so pre-existing software like git might not be efficient.
I don’t think it’s worth the effort in 95% of cases. How many people would care to troll or argue like that? They’d hardly be reasoned with even if proofs are at hand.
I still prefer when people do that if it after people already replied. Especially if those typos were significant enough to cause misunderstandings. The whole chain just becomes confusing if you fix them without any edit log.
It’s a leftover from reddit. A comment would be marked as “edited” if you changed anything after posting it, and since some people are shitheads and change their comments to say completely different things after people have already replied to them it’s just a way to inform people that the edit you made to your comment was just to fix typos and not anything significant
Lemmy even shows ninja edits. On Reddit you had a few minutes to get a quick edit in before it would be marked as edited. Lemmy gives the mark even if you edit within 5 seconds.
The only problem is if you accidentally include some personal information or other type you don’t want to be out there and you’ve edited it out, you probably don’t want it to be accessible.
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