I had learned about this a week or so ago, and the concern about the ability was that since the title does appear in the URL as well, how would that affect potential falsification and abuse. Well, in seeing this post about it again, I thought I'd experiment. Assuming your original title just mentioned Lemmy I edited the URL, and lo and behold it goes to this same page. So then I thought, is that title part even important? I cut off the URL after the 114218 number. It still goes here. So I guess everything after the post number is ignored, which means there's no problem at all.
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Other than the harmful "prank" type thing where you start with one title, gather comments and then edit it to make those comments mean something completely different, there is still the problem of creating an external link, getting the post to the top of hot/active/whatever and editing the URL to point somewhere malicious.
The counterpoint which usually is "you can already do that with short url services", to which the answer is "That's why they were all banned on Reddit".
Especially as there is absolutely no indication on Kbin that the title has been edited anywhere, and on Lemmy it's only that tiny pencil next to the post age.
Both the Lemmy and kBin UI show the domain of the link in a post. I would assume if someone got a post to the top of hot/active/whatever and edited the URL, then the UI would be updated to show the new URL's domain.
I pretty much agree with the caveats here.
I did find it very annoying on reddit when occasionally I or someone else made a post who's title contained an error. Could be a simple thing like a typo, or a wrong/misleading assumption/assertion.You don't want to fully delete the post because the discussion is useful, but you know people will see it as they scroll without opening the discussion, and will have the wrong idea.
OTOH I think there is a high probability of abuse/misuse of changed titles. I am 55% in favor of a no title changing policy. However with a FLOSS federated platform such a policy would prob be impossible to enforce because certainly some admins would have a patch or something to allow it.
I would propose that original titles be prominently displayed in strikethrough text everywhere the title is displayed. This might be annoying enough to develop a norm of not changing unless needed. Might be some intentional jokes but maybe avoid the flagrant abuse.
Yes, that's pretty common. Reddit URLs contain post titles as well, but they can be deleted without breaking navigation. I expect they're added just for the convenience of human readers.
Same with Kbin.
I'm glad there are two useful server implementations already. I hope to see more in the future.
No more users intentionally make a typo to attract karma. I remember a post become very popular because the redditor "mistyped" flashlight as fleshlight.
Also, no more karma. At least not in the Reddit sense.
Praise be
Ah yes, the first time I noticed this I was so happy. I mistype a lot. And don't get my started on autocorrect.
Ditto!
“That sort of technology doesn’t exist” - /u/spez, 2023 probably
I never understood why reddit didn't have this feature, I understand the abuse aspect but you can edit the bodies and everything is archived anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe it was programmed that way and they didn't bother changing it? Also, deleing your post on Reddit doesn't delete the title
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