• helmet91@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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        7 months ago

        Yes, I do that all the time. No better time to proofread than after you post!

        I don’t get why there isn’t a “view edit” feature. Lay it all out.

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      7 months ago

      i think the point is that you only have to write “edit:” when you actually changed something in your message

      if there’s no “edit” it’s often safe to assume nothing really changed, it’s just a typo or a rewording

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        7 months ago

        It’s good to have a hint on what he changed, if the whole text completely or was just a typo. It doesn’t hurt…

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          7 months ago

          It’s just one of those painfully Reddit things I was hoping we had left behind.

          Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!