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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I leave spelling mistakes once somebody replied and no comment about fixing it before that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I fix spelling mistakes once someone replied because that's when I come back and see my comment again and notice the spelling mistake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I tend to ~~leav~~ leave both correct and bad spellings.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Easy solution; show edit history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, u can still delete whole comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like the perfect answer.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The same is literally here? You will aso got a mark for an edited comment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you can edit something significant and just add "edit: typo".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's funny how people think writing "edit: typo" is more "transparent" and whatnot.

These people don't know about lying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Hey man I didn’t know that and that’s super helpful. Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

«Or people can change their comment and leave in "Edit: typo" to throw people of their trails» indeed, my friend