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Establishing a new Fediquette

Old habits die hard, but there's Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die.

Many "golden-age" redditors remember a time when downvoting was reserved for hostility, not a different opinion. For the sake of our growing community I would like to implore everyone to be awesome to each other.

However, this place is not Reddit.

  • We don't measure in bananas here.
  • We don't need to append "edit: typo" to edited posts and comments.
  • if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don't engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.
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  • We don’t need to append “edit: typo” to edited posts and comments.

    I didn't do that because it was reddit etiquette. I did it because people can see I edited my post, and I would like them to be able to see why

    • Why tell them you fixed typos? What's the point?

      I've edited my comments for years to fix typos and clarify statments, and I never once had anyone accuse me of being disingenuous.

      And even if they did, that's their, and their conspiratorial mind's problem.

      • Because otherwise people don't know why I edited the post. Did I change my opinion? Did I add some context or detail I missed the first time around? Or did I just fix a typo? A reason just makes it easy for people to have more context

        • That's the thing though, it's a paradox.

          Anyone who is considerable enough to use "edit:" for legitimate reasons would not be the people who would be deceptive and change their posts to reflect a new opinion.

          "edit: typo" is essentially just a defense against an imaginary accusation that you were being malicious.

          By all means, edit posts to include extra information as an appendage, but closing with "edit: added info" is not very helpful.

          • You misunderstand. I'm not doing it so that people know that I made a legit edit, I'm doing it so people know what the legit edit I made is.

            but closing with “edit: added info” is not very helpful.

            Who is doing that or arguing for that? Vague edit descriptions aren't terribly useful, and I'm not claiming otherwise...

            • Okay I get you. I thought you were literally typing "edit: typo", as opposed to something like "edit: she was my sisters friend"

              I guess we both misunderstood each other lol. I wasn't implying that was your argument, it's just something I find annoying.

              • I mean, it depends on the context.

                Did I make a post, have a lot of people get upset because I worded my post poorly? In which case, a I might make a clarifying edit like "edit: she was my sisters friend" so that future people that see my post don't get confused.

                Did I accidentally type "there's" instead of "theirs"? I'd probably just edit it with "edit: typo". Not because people care if I made a typo, but because I want people to know that it wasn't the first type of edit

                • I agree the context is important, and the examples of rewriting large paragraphs justify clarification, both for new people and returning.

                  But the original point I made was that you don't need to post "edit: typo" here on Lemmy. We don't have edited post/comment tags, so nobody would know if it's just typos

                  It's really not that big of a deal anyway, I was just thinking of redundant examples of Rediquete to drum up the conversation.

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