Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by CM30 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @10:46AM
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I'm sorry, but this reason for not having title editing (and post editing on other sites like Twitter and GameFAQs) always bothered me to hell and back.
Yes it could be misused, but go on any forum where you can edit titles or post content and look at how often such a feature actually does get abused.
It pretty much never happens. Most people (like 99.99% of them) either use the functionality how it was intended or don't bother editing at all.
I don't see the point of limiting a feature because about 0.1% of the userbase might theoretically abuse it in a certain situation. It's basically the social media/forum equivalent of the trolley problem and automated cars. Something that's going to happen very rarely at the most but draws a lot of discussion about 'what ifs'.
Yes it could be misused, but go on any forum where you can edit titles or post content and look at how often such a feature actually does get abused.
It pretty much never happens. Most people (like 99.99% of them) either use the functionality how it was intended or don't bother editing at all.
I don't see the point of limiting a feature because about 0.1% of the userbase might theoretically abuse it in a certain situation. It's basically the social media/forum equivalent of the trolley problem and automated cars. Something that's going to happen very rarely at the most but draws a lot of discussion about 'what ifs'.