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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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Joshua 1y ago

There is definitely a use case for "announcement"-type notes. It would be apparent if someone was trying to harass via edits to notes and replies which are part of a conversation. And the fact that not all clients support edits should dissuade trolls because the target may not even be aware of the attempted troll. The incentives don't align to support trolling, IMO.

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The Beave 1y ago

Yet.

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