the ability to edit titles is great. But the ability to edit the URL of a post is dangerous.

[-] njinx@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I'd file an issue on GitHub ASAP.

[-] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I hadn't even come across it yet but holy hell that's a scammer/malicious actors paradise.

[-] trent@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

On Kbin's end the thread ID is 57540 and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn't change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
Try this: https://kbin.social/m/sysadmin@lemmy.world/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPD

[-] 18107@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

StackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove that option.

[-] CSFFlame@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I kinda like it, but it should be operable for the mods (so it flags it for them to check, or whatever automod eventually shows up can hide the post until it's cleared)...

[+] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de -8 points 2 years ago

You could have done that on reddit as well

[-] eric5949@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

No you couldn't lol. In a comment sure but post no.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

And it's worth noting that this was/is rampant in comments on Reddit.

[-] teuast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

there was an entire genre of posts where posters would say "ask me any question and then edit your comment to make me look bad"

there were also times i'd call out a racist and they'd edit their comment to make it look like i'd called out as racist someone who was saying something totally innocuous. but then i was usually not the only one doing it, and the comments in questions usually got downvoted to oblivion, not to mention the time-of-edit indicators, so anybody with half a brain cell could figure out exactly what had happened.

[-] MarxusOrlyius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

there were also times i’d call out a racist and they’d edit their comment to make it look like i’d called out as racist someone who was saying something totally innocuous.

This is why you I pretty much always quote what I'm replying to.

[-] callyral@readit.buzz 0 points 2 years ago

you could edit the post or a comment but not the post title

[-] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah not the title, but links could have been edited.

[-] lich_hegemon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In a text post, yeah. Not in a link post

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