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.
I leave spelling mistakes once somebody replied and no comment about fixing it before that.
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.
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
In my opinion it’s not useless at all. Lemmy marks the comments as edited, but that’s just to show the fact that it was edited. But if you add the reason why you edited, that makes it a whole lot more transparent.
Sometimes it could happen that I see a great comment full of great ideas from a great user, and it could be lengthy as well. Then later I go back to see the reactions, and I see the comment was edited. If I don’t know what was edited on it, then I have to read the whole comment again. But if it’s clearly stated that only typos were fixed, then I don’t bother with re-reading the comment.
Lemmy needs to get rid of edit if you edit within 1 min. Often you’ll see a typo after you post and you have to edit. There should be a grace period like reddit.
Yes, I do that all the time. No better time to proofread than after you post!
I don’t get why there isn’t a “view edit” feature. Lay it all out.
i think the point is that you only have to write “edit:” when you actually changed something in your message
if there’s no “edit” it’s often safe to assume nothing really changed, it’s just a typo or a rewording
It’s good to have a hint on what he changed, if the whole text completely or was just a typo. It doesn’t hurt…
It is not worthless, it tells you that the post was edited and that the author didn’t try to hide it.
That’s fair, but I mostly post on mobile and unless I have a button to do strikethrough, I won’t do it.
I’d rather have it be known why I’ve edited my message, rather than leave people to question if I’d edited the body or meaning of my message. In my case it’s an accredited science lab thing, but I imagine lots of corporate and legal professionals do the same.
I also imagine things. Are you supporting your own position through things your brain created while staring out the window?
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
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym
https://www.etymonline.com/word/initialism#etymonline_v_44089
