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A guy in a Discord call asked me why I wanted raw edits to be deletable, and I couldn't answer him
I used to argue hard that platforms should never let posters edit or delete old comments, because I figured that was just how liars cover their tracks. Then last week my friend Dev, who moderates a 4,000 person gaming server out of Baltimore, pointed out that he removes doxxing posts every single day and the edit button is the only thing that keeps a victim's home address off the screen after the fact. It hit me that a delete is not always a cover up, sometimes it is just a mop. So where is the line between letting people clean up their own mess and letting them rewrite history?
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the_william4d ago
Notice how banks let you fix a typo but keep a hidden record forever, same idea applies online.
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