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What's good etiquette in correcting your comments on Lemmy? [Lemmiquette] (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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One quirk of Lemmy is that edits and deletions may not propagate properly to every server, meaning you're never guaranteed anything past the initial posting.

So how do you handle when you say something you'd like to amend, correct, or delete?

Do you:

  • Edit your corrections directly into the original?
  • Delete it?
  • Add an Edit:?
  • Put the original comment behind a spoiler tag or strike through?

Or something else?

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

realize after the fact that I’ve pissed someone off or been unfair. I’m not above just hitting delete in some of those instances.

On reddit when you would do that, the comment would appear in the persons inbox, but they could not reply or report it because it no longer existed, so that would be the absolute worst thing you could do in that case.

I don´t know what the possibility tree is on Lemmy for deleted comments, though; I've gotten replies to comments that I deleted almost immediately. For that reason, I'm leaning more to editing comments than deleting them, leaving the original insult/display of stupidity intact usually.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I can only assume, with federation, that a deletion takes time to propagate out everywhere. If my comment ends up in someone's inbox, yeah, the damage is done there. Deletion is somewhat of a last resort, so I've really only done it a handful of times.

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