One quirk of Lemmy is that edits and deletions may not propagate properly to every server, meaning you’re never guaranteed anything past the initial posting.
So how do you handle when you say something you’d like to amend, correct, or delete?
Do you:
- Edit your corrections directly into the original?
- Delete it?
- Add an Edit:?
- Put the original comment behind a spoiler tag or strike through?
Or something else?
I think edit etiquette was a side effect of karma.
So while the question is interesting, on Lemmy, there isn’t much riding on the answer anymore.
Maybe we are more free?
Writing “edit” and then whatever you wanted to add was traditional bulletin board forum etiquette too, predating internet points.
A spelling mistake I still just add an asterisk* by the corrected word. Idk if that still makes any sense to the majority. I’m a fucking fossil online really.
Yes, but people are much more likely to block people who are acting like jerks, because there are fewer of them and so you can clean your inbox quite nicely.
EDIT: is still courteous if you are significantly changing the content of your comment or post, so that people can have that context in mind when theybread child comments.
If it is a small “ninja” edit I usually don’t draw attention to it though.