Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?

Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by dang on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:34PM (#28542003)

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.

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Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by sgt on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:00PM (#28542959)

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

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Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by dang on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:35PM (#28544674)

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.

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Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by gjsman-1000 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:53AM (#28550530)

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.

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Re:Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College? by dang on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:28PM (#28588095)

Appreciated!

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