I feel this way, posts can be hijacked after becoming trendy to be replaced with ads, or there could be other ways to exploit this. If there was a title in the typo, then it’s easy to delete the post and re-publish it. But what could be use cases of having to edit a post title after publishing? Just add edits in the post body.
What do you think?
I think it’s generally a bad idea to eliminate a potentially useful feature because some people might abuse it.
It seems to me that far and away the better choice is to leave the feature in place along with some way to deal with those who do abuse it if and when they do.
And conveniently enough, deletion and bans - both of which are already within an instance owner’s power - are ways to deal with, respectively, threads that have been maliciously edited and those who edit them.
potentially useful
In what respect? I gave an example of title typo, but I can’t see any other way it would be useful in.
I feel like edits within a short window should be allowed for error correction. After that it should probably be locked.
If it’s left unlocked, either temporarily or permanently, there should be an edit history akin to Wikipedia to track the changes.
I like being able to edit the post title and link. But I think editing the link specifically is a little bit risky. Putting up legit links, then slightly changing them later could be used to phish people.
As for post title and post body, I don’t really care. People could put ads in the post body as well. There’s a tradeoff that has to be made between utility and security.
I would say let it happen for now and if it becomes a problem we can revisit later. AFAIK this should be able to be changed in a Lemmy update, so we’re not forever locked into one option.
Is there an indication when a post has been edited?
Is this change not visible in the modlog?
