I see in comments sections of subs that people who make edits to their comments will explain their edits. What happens if you don’t explain your edit? Will others know that I’ve made an edit without explaining it? And why would they care?
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A popular ‘joke’ from the early popularity of message boards/Facebook:
* Make a statement that is polarizing (either popular or offensive)
* Be responded to, either with people agreeing with you or calling you a terrible person
* Edit your statement to be the opposite
* Now you’ve got what looks like a normal statement being called out for no reason, or an offensive statement with people agreeing to it
Having a note saying that your comment was edited removes most of the fun of this ‘joke’. But now that people knew about the potential, if they see your ‘edited’ comment with no explanation, there’s a suspicion that the edits changed the meaning into something completely different. So explaining the edits makes it more believable that the edits were harmless. Or the notes combined with ~~strikethrough~~ explain the edits in a way that makes sense.
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