You added that last paragraph after your original comment, which was just the first two sentences. That was a highly misleading edit, because it changes the meaning of the reply you got. That was not a nice thing to do to the other user, even if they weren't being particularly nice to you in the first place.

It's great to share your personal experience and fine to edit your comments, but if you're making substantial edits, please say that they're edits.

That made me think of a feature idea for HN - revision history for edited comments, publicly available. What do you think?

I've thought about it over the years but there are also a lot of cases where it's better not to point a spotlight on things; if people post something they regret and later edit it out, and the effect isn't misleading, it's usually better to just let it sink into obscurity.

There are variations of such a feature that might strike a balance - for example only tracking edits once a comment has replies; or simply marking them 'edited' without saying what the edits were.

I just saw this dang and I apologize for my edit. It was not intended to mess up the next person’s as it was to add more context - but I recognize how it messed up their response. Sorry.

Appreciated!

Have you done this yourself? Can you tell me what critical race theory is?

English has a lot of strange phrases that mean something other than what you'd guess from parsing the words by what they mean. For example, critical race theory is a phrase in the imperative sense that means "start arguing right now."

From WP: "Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice." It's legal theory, dumbass.

Whoa, you can't attack others like that here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Since you've been doing it repeatedly, and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It is well past the point of meaning what it's defined to mean. I have been hearing about it somehow showing up as a guiding principle in the design of middle school curricula, which does not involve teaching those kids any legal theories. It is what all words turn into when they are used too often: it is a buzzword.

Not sure if you are aware but this was a coordinated and planned tactic by right wing media. Specifically they targeted the term crt and decided to make it out to be the devil.

It’s a common tactic of Fox News and adjacent online outlets. Senators will join in as well. Anything to start a culture war. It’s coordinated and planned. I’m on mobile but I’d send you some evidence about it. I remember Hasan Piker showing some interesting information about it.

Ah Wikipedia, the word of god.

We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments.

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