It’s polite to justify and/or summarise an edit, because many platforms label edited posts and it helps reassure everyone that the conversation they’re reading really happened.
There’s a big difference between “edit to totally change what was said and make everyone responding to me look like fools or racists” and “edit to correct a typo”
Sure you can, but there’s a lot of etiquette which was originally supposed to signal trustworthiness which liars fake all the time. That doesn’t stop it from being considered polite
How would you know someone lying though? It seems people need to rely on someone giving a reason for their edit? So it doesn’t seem like they’d know otherwise, and if they could, then what’s the point in the first place?
The point is that people are going to see that the post was edited, because most platforms will tell them, and the poster is saying “yeah, it’s edited. Don’t worry, the meaning hasn’t changed”.
Asking how you’d tell if they were lying is really missing the point. It’s not evidence being presented in a court of law, it’s social etiquette.
Handshakes date from a time when the person you’re meeting having a knife they intend to stab you with was a serious concern, so the custom of grasping each others dominant hand to say “look, I’m not holding a knife” became popular. Doesn’t stop people from having a weapon in their other hand, but would you say handshakes are pointless?
It’s polite to justify and/or summarise an edit, because many platforms label edited posts and it helps reassure everyone that the conversation they’re reading really happened.
There’s a big difference between “edit to totally change what was said and make everyone responding to me look like fools or racists” and “edit to correct a typo”
Sure, but you can also just lie. No one lies on the internet.
Edit: grammar
Sure you can, but there’s a lot of etiquette which was originally supposed to signal trustworthiness which liars fake all the time. That doesn’t stop it from being considered polite
How would you know someone lying though? It seems people need to rely on someone giving a reason for their edit? So it doesn’t seem like they’d know otherwise, and if they could, then what’s the point in the first place?
The point is that people are going to see that the post was edited, because most platforms will tell them, and the poster is saying “yeah, it’s edited. Don’t worry, the meaning hasn’t changed”.
Asking how you’d tell if they were lying is really missing the point. It’s not evidence being presented in a court of law, it’s social etiquette.
Handshakes date from a time when the person you’re meeting having a knife they intend to stab you with was a serious concern, so the custom of grasping each others dominant hand to say “look, I’m not holding a knife” became popular. Doesn’t stop people from having a weapon in their other hand, but would you say handshakes are pointless?