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That's almost certainly by design. Just as with tweets, it would be massively abused.

kalleboo 9y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure mods can...
adventured 9y ago
Might make sense to make it optional per subreddit. Some communities are far less filled with trolls than others. Locked after N hours or minutes is also a potential solution elaboration that could give subreddits flexibility (on/off, if on then lock after N time options). Default it to locked. One more layer would be to enable only for established accounts and or based on the account behavior historically, and so on.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago
  Please no. We've seen how much mods can be trusted when given toys. Any true Scotsman redditor will express their hatred for how often posts on /r/all are summarily locked by a mod. Often the justification is "lol no" or "I'm not spending my saturday policing the modqueue." Which is valid, but sucks for the 300k people that have to deal with it.
johnfn 9y ago
Ages ago an admin said "yeah it would make sense for post titles to be edited within the first x minutes of making one", an incredibly low-hanging fruit that has been requested since forever. It still hasn't been added.
- rickhanlonii 9y ago
  I can think of a few problems with this just off the top of my head: The first x minutes of a post are _heavily_ influential in the success of the post, editing after allows you to hijack successful titles for gain (spam) For large subs, posts only hit the top of /new for x minutes (for small x), editing after is basically useless if it's not successful in that time Mods patrol the /new queue as posts come in, allowing editing will complicate moderation which is already a difficult job
  - johnfn 9y ago
    I mean whatever your concerns are, the admins/developers of Reddit are okay with this change.
    - orf 9y ago
      where ok, or at least one was in a comment posted 'ages ago'. That's very different.
  - squeaky-clean 9y ago
    At least allow mods to change titles. Even that isn't possible.
- shalmanese 9y ago
  The reddit button for submitting a post still says "save". I brought it up to a reddit designer last year and apparently there's some mountain of technical debt that would make changing the label a week long task so its languished at the bottom of the priority queue for many years now.
CM30 9y ago
I'm sorry, but this reason for not having title editing (and post editing on other sites like Twitter and GameFAQs) always bothered me to hell and back. Yes it could be misused, but go on any forum where you can edit titles or post content and look at how often such a feature actually does get abused. It pretty much never happens. Most people (like 99.99% of them) either use the functionality how it was intended or don't bother editing at all. I don't see the point of limiting a feature because about 0.1% of the userbase might theoretically abuse it in a certain situation. It's basically the social media/forum equivalent of the trolley problem and automated cars. Something that's going to happen very rarely at the most but draws a lot of discussion about 'what ifs'.

Yeah I'm pretty sure mods can...

Might make sense to make it optional per subreddit. Some communities are far less filled with trolls than others. Locked after N hours or minutes is also a potential solution elaboration that could give subreddits flexibility (on/off, if on then lock after N time options). Default it to locked. One more layer would be to enable only for established accounts and or based on the account behavior historically, and so on.

sillysaurus3 9y ago
Please no. We've seen how much mods can be trusted when given toys. Any true Scotsman redditor will express their hatred for how often posts on /r/all are summarily locked by a mod. Often the justification is "lol no" or "I'm not spending my saturday policing the modqueue." Which is valid, but sucks for the 300k people that have to deal with it.

johnfn 9y ago

Ages ago an admin said "yeah it would make sense for post titles to be edited within the first x minutes of making one", an incredibly low-hanging fruit that has been requested since forever. It still hasn't been added.

rickhanlonii 9y ago
I can think of a few problems with this just off the top of my head: The first x minutes of a post are _heavily_ influential in the success of the post, editing after allows you to hijack successful titles for gain (spam) For large subs, posts only hit the top of /new for x minutes (for small x), editing after is basically useless if it's not successful in that time Mods patrol the /new queue as posts come in, allowing editing will complicate moderation which is already a difficult job
- johnfn 9y ago
  I mean whatever your concerns are, the admins/developers of Reddit are okay with this change.
  - orf 9y ago
    where ok, or at least one was in a comment posted 'ages ago'. That's very different.
- squeaky-clean 9y ago
  At least allow mods to change titles. Even that isn't possible.
shalmanese 9y ago
The reddit button for submitting a post still says "save". I brought it up to a reddit designer last year and apparently there's some mountain of technical debt that would make changing the label a week long task so its languished at the bottom of the priority queue for many years now.

CM30 9y ago

I'm sorry, but this reason for not having title editing (and post editing on other sites like Twitter and GameFAQs) always bothered me to hell and back. Yes it could be misused, but go on any forum where you can edit titles or post content and look at how often such a feature actually does get abused. It pretty much never happens. Most people (like 99.99% of them) either use the functionality how it was intended or don't bother editing at all. I don't see the point of limiting a feature because about 0.1% of the userbase might theoretically abuse it in a certain situation. It's basically the social media/forum equivalent of the trolley problem and automated cars. Something that's going to happen very rarely at the most but draws a lot of discussion about 'what ifs'.