They can fork and create a new version of my note. Then they can send me a pull-request, to ask me to accept their new version and use it to replace my version.

They can spam me and troll me with requested changes, basically, but I can respond by muting them and then I don't see their requests.

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Thank you for the explanation. Maybe the answer will stick in my pea brain this time. 😂 I still don't totally understand forking and not even sure how or if I would ever use it. 😂 Have patience with me dear fren.

They use a lot of tech-mumbojumbo to say "request a change" and "accept a change".

You could use it to fix a broken hyperlink on someone else's note, for instance. Copy the note, correct the hyperlink typo, send them a request.

Edit your post then is what it means. All this new terminology to me is hard to understand.

Yes, you can

- "edit your own post" (create a new version and immediately accept it) and

- "fork posts" (create a new version) and then

- "pull request" (ask to have the new version accepted).

No. I meant its editing someone else's note for them? That then has to be approved by the author. Not editing their own not. I can't even ask questions about this stuff right! 😂

You can do both.

They call it different things, but it's the same thing, in the background. Your changes to your own notes are just automatically approved, basically.

Gotcha. Thanks for your time. I'll leave now, I'm sure I'm getting on your nerves by now. Have a wonderful day.

No, you just did everyone reading a favor.

I appreciate your patience with me.

🫂