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 posts also show they are edited.
Though I never wrote that I fixed a typo on reddit either. Only stating the edit if it was adding info or changing something.
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.
Like so
I leave spelling mistakes once somebody replied and no comment about fixing it before that.
I fix spelling mistakes once someone replied because that’s when I come back and see my comment again and notice the spelling mistake.
I tend to
leavleave both correct and bad spellings.
Easy solution; show edit history.
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.
I mean, u can still delete whole comment
Seems like the perfect answer.
The same is literally here? You will aso got a mark for an edited comment.
So you can edit something significant and just add “edit: typo”.
It’s funny how people think writing “edit: typo” is more “transparent” and whatnot.
These people don’t know about lying.
Or people can change their comment and leave in “Edit: typo” to throw people off their trails, like I just did.
What, did you think I was gonna be deceptive?
EDIT: Typo
Hey man I didn’t know that and that’s super helpful. Thanks for sharing!
«Or people can change their comment and leave in “Edit: typo” to throw people of their trails» indeed, my friend
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.
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.
Even with view edit for some reason I’ll always catch the fucker AFTER I post!
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
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…
It’s just one of those painfully Reddit things I was hoping we had left behind.
Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
if the whole text completely was changed there’d be an “edit”
If you don’t put the “Edit:” you will never know if it was a typo or a whole text.
are you even reading what I’m saying
How many times do you go to the bathroom in a day you think? Jw
about as many times as i open lemmy
It is not worthless, it tells you that the post was edited and that the author didn’t try to hide it.
That’s why I use this
Edits about typos are
stupidpointless.That’s fair, but I mostly post on mobile and unless I have a button to do strikethrough, I won’t do it.
It’s just ~this~
thisThank you, but I will have forgotten untill I need it next time
Here’s a handy list. I know it’s Reddit but Lemmy uses the same formatting.
The content has an edit flag
Sure, but it doesn’t tell you what has changed.
Neither does the edit, necessarily. You could just lie.
The grandest faux pas. Anyone is caught doing that it’s shame and ridicule for the rest of their being. Also a fire-able offense.
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.
I also imagine things. Are you supporting your own position through things your brain created while staring out the window?
Supporting your position through things created in your brain is called “explaining yourself”, or more specifically “explaining the rationale behind your position”.
Did you think you were being clever?
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 used to tell people I’m about 5 minutes away when they did that on Reddit. Ask for my ETA I’ll give you it.
It’s an initialism, not an acronym.
shakes fist at that too
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym
https://www.etymonline.com/word/initialism#etymonline_v_44089
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But why did you edit that one?
I can’t believe you’d say that. You are immoral and a bad person.
*OP edited his depraved and disgusting comment to just insult people asking for edits. 😋
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Who should we believe, me or some rando who is a serial comment editor?
I rest my case.
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I beg to differ.
Sometimes I don’t want to say "edit: my fat thumbs typed ‘thumps’ instead of ‘thumbs’ " but I don’t want anyone to assume foul play when they see my comment has been edited.
But that still requires people trusting you not to be dishonest when you provide the reason for your edit.
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.
There was a 60 second grace period. It was a called a ninja edit
Ah, you mean a ninja edit. Yes, this should be allowed.
I just tested and it definitely isn’t.
That’s why you proofread before you post, don’t you?
Lmao no
Why would you say something so true yet so controversial?
Because if somebody pointed out a spelling error, you aren’t making them look like the idiot.
But making others look like idiots is what the internet is all about!
I hate people that edit stuff
I don’t see what you did there.
Edit: now I do…
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Well said
I don’tMe too
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.
Edit: HOW DARE YOU!
When you get to level 7 you unlock the ability to delete your comment and repost it without spelling errors or a mark of editing.
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.
Not much, and something with branches would be overengineered
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.
Edit: Just to completely change the whole meaning of the post to make people who responded to me look like assholes.
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.
Back in the early days of Reddit if you edited something it was marked as such, but people didn’t know what you edited. So, as a courtesy, you explained your edit.
Lots of platforms now have an ‘edited’ notification so it’s still common to leave the ‘E:’ comment.
