Think it is the opposite: an edit button would immediately be abused by and increase trolling & slop - posting to gain reach then change content to spread scams, chaos or disinfo as they do on facebook.
No edit button makes people l
more accountable for their words - delete or own it.
All of this can be remediated.
1) edited posts get visibly flagged
2) allow original revisions to be viewed, ala Wikipedia
3) time limited edits; eg you get 10 minutes to fix typos, then it's locked
4) notifications when a post you quoted/reposted changed, so you can remove bad faith trolls
1) I was just thinking of the use case: you make a post, then a notification comes in; seeing the post again, you suddenly see the typos. Happens all r time, to me. If the admins are skeptical that editing wouldn't be a problematic mess, then a short window would be a good start to allowing edits.
2) a *long* edit window - say, no edits after a week - would unquestionably be a good thing. Most posts aren't wikipedia entries, they're random quips & commentary. You shouldn't be able to change your meaning in a months-old argument no one else remembers.
You want to recant? Delete, or reply with your correction.
And picture political figures editing very old posts, removing anything controversial, burying that under "view history" menus. Scrubbing via deletion is one thing, but changing old posts so that it's not obvious is something else.
It's an extremely hard problem to solve reliably even without getting into T&S. It's especially hard to solve on a decentralized system like atProto (c.f. bsky's block implementation, and that's only a part of the issue.)
Some variation like a redaction might work better for the critical use cases.
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It seems trivial, but you run into the “do not do anything that will disturb the firehose” effect.
No edit button makes people l
more accountable for their words - delete or own it.
1) edited posts get visibly flagged
2) allow original revisions to be viewed, ala Wikipedia
3) time limited edits; eg you get 10 minutes to fix typos, then it's locked
4) notifications when a post you quoted/reposted changed, so you can remove bad faith trolls
If we assume there's a valid use case for editing posts, then arguably it might be *more* important the longer it's been.
And picture political figures editing very old posts, removing anything controversial, burying that under "view history" menus. Scrubbing via deletion is one thing, but changing old posts so that it's not obvious is something else.
Unedited content with timestamps is fine without an edit button.
Delete is plenty function for retraction. Changing past messaging would be bad for a platform like this.
Next you'll have folk saying Trump won in 2020 or that Ukraine attacked Russia.
Some variation like a redaction might work better for the critical use cases.
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