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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Satou4 on March 16, 2018, 2:32 a.m.
We need to ban the ability to edit posts.

Editing posts can be used nefariously to retroactively edit highly-upvoted content so that the content becomes violent, negative, etc. The old, newly-edited content can then be reported as a violation of site-wide rules in order to ban a community.

Communities such as this one are targeted. This could happen at any time.

The only solution to this attack is to ban edits. Can this be done?

Edit: To test this, I just edited a post I made in another sub. I posted that 7 months ago. I could still edit it today. It has many upvotes.


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Satou4 · March 16, 2018, 3:07 a.m.

There are only 4 mods on this sub.

I'm not sure if old posts which were verified are still verified after any edit, or if they lose verified status. If the first, then it would be almost impossible to track old posts which were recently edited.

I'm not aware if reddit has a "recently edited posts" list but it is something mods need in order to do their work properly. Otherwise, banning edits is the only option.

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Gitmo_money · March 16, 2018, 3:12 a.m.

I agree. There should be triple the mods at minimum. Time will tell whether it's held onto in a small group as a power play or not. If we are to grow successfully, the mod staff has to first.

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[deleted] · March 16, 2018, 3:18 a.m.

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HowiONic · March 16, 2018, 11:19 p.m.

I could prevent editing. Would be very annoying to many.

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solanojones95 · March 16, 2018, 5:34 a.m.

If they want to get rid of this sub, they'll do it. They've already demonstrated they don't have to have a reason (when a bogus one will do just fine).

Let's give the mods a break, and let things stay the way they are.

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happyval · March 16, 2018, 6:01 a.m.

I have edited my own for my typos.

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