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Establishing a new Fediquette
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Because otherwise people don't know why I edited the post. Did I change my opinion? Did I add some context or detail I missed the first time around? Or did I just fix a typo? A reason just makes it easy for people to have more context
That's the thing though, it's a paradox.
Anyone who is considerable enough to use "edit:" for legitimate reasons would not be the people who would be deceptive and change their posts to reflect a new opinion.
"edit: typo" is essentially just a defense against an imaginary accusation that you were being malicious.
By all means, edit posts to include extra information as an appendage, but closing with "edit: added info" is not very helpful.
You misunderstand. I'm not doing it so that people know that I made a legit edit, I'm doing it so people know what the legit edit I made is.
Who is doing that or arguing for that? Vague edit descriptions aren't terribly useful, and I'm not claiming otherwise...
Okay I get you. I thought you were literally typing "edit: typo", as opposed to something like "edit: she was my sisters friend"
I guess we both misunderstood each other lol. I wasn't implying that was your argument, it's just something I find annoying.
I mean, it depends on the context.
Did I make a post, have a lot of people get upset because I worded my post poorly? In which case, a I might make a clarifying edit like "edit: she was my sisters friend" so that future people that see my post don't get confused.
Did I accidentally type "there's" instead of "theirs"? I'd probably just edit it with "edit: typo". Not because people care if I made a typo, but because I want people to know that it wasn't the first type of edit
I agree the context is important, and the examples of rewriting large paragraphs justify clarification, both for new people and returning.
But the original point I made was that you don't need to post "edit: typo" here on Lemmy. We don't have edited post/comment tags, so nobody would know if it's just typos
It's really not that big of a deal anyway, I was just thinking of redundant examples of Rediquete to drum up the conversation.
Posts show as edited in many 3rd party apps and on other platforms
Edit - And in Lemmy too!
/c/TIL
FYI, I can also see an edit to your previous post too, directly in Lemmy!
Oh shit.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE WHAT I CHANGED.
It was a really embarrassing mistake and I'm sorry I ever said it.
That part I can't see. Only that you edited it :)