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.

  • LeZero@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Paradox@lemdro.id
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOP
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • MetalFingers@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think this is a good thing, way too easy to abuse, spread misinformation, or sell a post to advertisers

  • 200ok@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • 🇺🇦 Max UL@lemmy.pro
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.