• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    Quotes are not uneditable… but neither are comments.

    Wouldn’t be the first time when the parent gets edited to make a reply look like nonsense, so I got used to quoting as a countermeasure. Then they unlocked comment editing even in 10 year old “archived” posts 🤦 (BTW, the same applies to Lemmy: should I quote you? will you edit what you said?.. tomorrow, or in 10 years?.. maybe I’ll risk it, this time)

    “Zero tolerance” becomes a problem when the system requires you to quote, but then some months or years later decides to change the rules and applies them retroactively. I still wouldn’t mind if they just flagged, hid, or removed the comment, it’s the “go on a treasure hunt to find out why you got banned” that I find insulting (kind of like the “wrong login”… /jk, you got banned. Wonder if it’s been fixed in Lemmy already, I know of some sites that haven’t for the last 15 years).

    • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      Quotes are not uneditable… but neither are comments.

      You kinda get into an ouroborus of who has fewer edits, and honestly I don’t know how to solve for that, but I do know that if you had substituted “n-word” for the slur it would look exactly the same if the OP edited the comment after the fact. Quoting the slur doesn’t mitigate that.

      “Zero tolerance” becomes a problem when the system requires you to quote, but then some months or years later decides to change the rules and applies them retroactively. I

      Any policy becomes a problem at that point. It becomes less of a policy and more of a guideline