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> What about highly upvoted/downvoted comments that are then edited to reverse or change the sentiment. This is why it pays to quote context in Internet discus
by username223 13y ago
> What about highly upvoted/downvoted comments that are then edited to reverse or change the sentiment.
This is why it pays to quote context in Internet discussions.
- Shish2k 13y ago> I am a monkey As a side note, it would be really useful if there was some way of quoting context that didn't trivially lend itself to forging context... (though admittedly that's a much smaller problem).
- daeken 13y agoSimple solution: store the comment revisions, and when you go to a reply, allow the user to see the revision that was active when the reply was posted.
- raldi 13y agoSimpler solution: Leave things the way they are. It doesn't make sense to dramatically increase your storage costs and UI complexity over a feature 99% of your users don't care about and a substantial number will actually be annoyed by. You have bigger fish to fry.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoOr just disallow edits.