Sounds like it was the BBC that had omitted the context in the original headline. If anything this highlights how wild it is that Reddit titles still can’t be edited
The only reason I can think of for that rule is to prevent people from posting something that’s very agreeable and then changing it to something terrible once it has thousands of upvotes, and making it look like many people support the terrible statement.
Not even mods can do this in Reddit, though. Seems like an unreasonable restriction.
If only there was a system that logged every moderator action into a public page that everybody can see. Maybe we can call it “modlog” or something like that.
Sounds like it was the BBC that had omitted the context in the original headline. If anything this highlights how wild it is that Reddit titles still can’t be edited
The only reason I can think of for that rule is to prevent people from posting something that’s very agreeable and then changing it to something terrible once it has thousands of upvotes, and making it look like many people support the terrible statement.
Not even mods can do this in Reddit, though. Seems like an unreasonable restriction.
If only there was a system that logged every moderator action into a public page that everybody can see. Maybe we can call it “modlog” or something like that.
Impossible!