Why YSK: You might be used to Reddit where you can’t edit titles. This is important both for the errant poster, but also for the person coming from ages in the future who might stumble upon it.
Why YSK: You might be used to Reddit where you can’t edit titles. This is important both for the errant poster, but also for the person coming from ages in the future who might stumble upon it.
Although I’m curious about how they might address the “clickbait” issue of people having a massively upvoted/boosted post, and then changing the post to say something else entirely.
That seems like it might be a problem if people are allowed to edit titles.
‘*Title edited’ small text could be added maybe. And if title is edited after a day or week or month then specify that too.
Honestly one probably should have ability to edit titles after max two days pass or even one. I can’t think of a good reason you would want to edit a title after a day or two
Editing titles much later can be useful for example when discussing news or findings that later get disproved, at which point one could edit the title to reflect that so that future readers don’t risk going down the path of trusting it.
I don’t think it’s necessary or even good to have that kind of messages which are either very recent (ninja-edits) or have very few upvotes, engagement, etc, at least for a day or so. At least not a prominent message.
All the concerns, after all, are about swicharoos, and if noone has yet seen the post, is it really a swicharoo? We should rather incentivise people to edit bad titles to get rid of titlegore etc and “delete, repost” aka the reddit solution isn’t exactly elegant either.
Maybe through moderation?
Is it really a problem tho? If it would happen then the only thing that sucks is that you just got pranked. There are no karma points here to sell. I have more faith in ppl here to not do such things too. But even if they did there wouldn’t be a big deal. I think it is much more worth it having it then not having it. Like ruud (admin at lemmy.worls) change his titles from “updating the server” to “[all done] updating the server”. Also I am a believer in creating rules if it becomes a problem, to give everyone a chance to be believed in.
Sure, but I could see it being used to promote scams and things, too. You get a popular post, and then change it to something else, pointing to a scam, and feign popular support for it.
I remember that being one of the reasons for why both Reddit and Twitter didn’t really have post/title editing.
It’s better to also have some known method of counteracting any potential issues ahead of time, so we’re not blindsided by something like that when it does happen, especially when it’s something that could happen now, rather than some far-fetched issue.
Ah I see, I guess I have missed this. I didn’t think it was such a big problem. But I can see it happen on bigger platforms. Thanks for enlightening me. I guess I am still too naive for social media haha
It absolutely can become a problem in the areas of advertising, politics, propaganda, misinformation, and scams.
Once out of the spotlight of the immediate popular phase (say, a month or a year after the initial post) and the greater scrutiny that carries, imagine changing the title to something anti-vax, or painting a company in a better light (Nestle did nothing wrong!), or endorsing a fake research result (global warming is not man-made and just a natural cycle!), or just flat out putting in a web address to a phishing site since you know someone’s grandma will click on it.