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.
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.
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.
Because if somebody pointed out a spelling error, you aren’t making them look like the idiot.
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.
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.
Reason: Lazy
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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.
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.
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.
