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New learnings from yesterday's release that I had never considered.

Receiving an edit proposal creates some interesting dynamics:

- If you were ignorant and used a less precise way to argue your point, an expert can quickly fix it for you. This is educational to the author.

- Grammar nazi's can now be happy without adopting a combative reply. Everyone loves getting their typos quickly fixed by somebody else who can just write better.

- If you are using inflammatory language just to get clicks, somebody tones it down in an edit and you reject it, it sends a clear signal that you are here for the clicks and not for the discussion/debate. People can now choose to walk away from profiles that are only here to troll.

What else are people seeing out there?
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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

I don't see the point to be honest.

If I disagree with someone's statement I can just write a comment. This drives engagement.

When I read other people's thoughts I want to hear *their* voice.

If they fatfingered a couple of words on the phone or misspelled a word or had an editing accident where the grammar ended up a bit off doesn't really matter that much.

There are many self-professed 'experts' that have spoken out against Covid critics and vaccine skeptics in the past few years. They can make their statements in their own posts. No need to encourage them to invade other people's posts.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

If they accept an edit, it is their voice.

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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

I haven't updated to the new Amethyst so I have not seen what the UI for this looks like, but you alluded to that others could see the edit even if it is not accepted?

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

No, your followers will only see edits coming from you.

You receive notifications when other people edit your post. From there you can "accept" the edit, which essentilly creates a new edit on your name. That edit then becomes available to your followers.

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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

Ah, I see. Sounds reasonable.