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?

Question

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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They can see that it’s edited and when, the purpose of explaining the edit is a courtesy so that any replies or votes prior to the edit will be contextualized.  There’s no reddit police coming after you, many just consider it polite.

Edit: hey look an example! I fixed some spelling but no changes to the meaning.