4 ms·
because then someone could tweet 'I think racism is bad', 100 people would reply 'I agree' and then they could change it to 'I am pro-nazi'
by AznHisoka 11y ago
because then someone could tweet 'I think racism is bad', 100 people would reply 'I agree' and then they could change it to 'I am pro-nazi'
- minimaxir 11y agoFacebook has an edit history for statuses for exactly that reason.
- smt88 11y agoI'm a web developer. I've integrated Facebook into a bunch of apps in non-trivial ways. I would describe myself as a power user Facebook.com and the app. I had no idea you could see the history of statuses. I'd imagine it's not widely known. I've actually seen people use this exact scenario for trolling (going onto a politician's page, saying something the followers agree with, and then editing it to something awful).
- ahallock 11y agoSo how have comment systems with edit functionality survived since the advent of the internet? This is a non-issue. It's an interesting prank, but that's about it.
- tomasien 11y agoRetweeting makes this a huge problem. The way the edit button could work, however, is to remove all RTs and favs and create a new tweet. This isn't what people who complain the most about the lack of an edit button (celebrities) actually want though, so it remains as it is.