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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus Jul 26
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      Drew Austin Retweeted Melissa Vaught

      This seems so obvious to me - I can't believe anyone thinks the edit button would be a net positivehttps://twitter.com/biochembelle/status/1154409465367523328?s=20 …

      Drew Austin added,

      Melissa Vaught @biochembelle
      My unpopular Twitter opinion: There should be no edit button. Our annoyance w typos isn’t worth the new form of gaslighting it would enable.
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      3 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
    2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jul 26
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      Replying to @kneelingbus

      I’m baffled right along side you here. What is everyone thinking?? YouTube doesn’t allow you to edit videos, SMTP doesn’t allow you to edit emails, and Twitter shouldn’t allow you to edit tweets. This is good.

      6 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    3.  🎵Master Tim Blais 👨🏻‍🔬‏ @acapellascience Jul 26
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      Replying to @KevinSimler @kneelingbus

      Actually YouTube is starting to allow us to edit videos. I think this is a good thing. I think editing should be fully enabled there, and here, along with an obvious “edited” tag like on facebook comments and a viewable edit history.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4.  🎵Master Tim Blais 👨🏻‍🔬‏ @acapellascience Jul 26
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      Replying to @acapellascience @KevinSimler @kneelingbus

      On reddit there’s a robust culture of labelling the edits you make to a post. I think that could apply here. There’d need to be community guidelines in terms of “re-editing viral tweet to be an ad” or whatever, but I’m sure it could be done

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jul 26
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      Replying to @acapellascience @kneelingbus

      Interesting! My feeling on e.g. YouTube is that editing functionality will be used mostly for good (95%+), only occasionally for ill, but that on net the bad will outweigh the good. But could be wrong.

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jul 26
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      Replying to @KevinSimler @acapellascience @kneelingbus

      One thing that makes Twitter a special case is the retweet. If B retweets A, then A edits their tweet, the modified tweet reflects on B as well as A. Not sure if there’s an analogous dynamic on Reddit or YouTube

      1:51 PM - 26 Jul 2019
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        1.  🎵Master Tim Blais 👨🏻‍🔬‏ @acapellascience Jul 26
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          Replying to @KevinSimler @kneelingbus

          Yeah that’s a bit of a unique situation. You could imagine a notification system for it though: “Your retweet has been modified. Review?”

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