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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   3266 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 5, 2024

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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Once again appears the age-old question: What would the ideal conversation platform look like?

Ideally, the edit history of a comment should be visible, as it is on Wikipedia or Github.

I can imagine a system where each user has his own Git repository, in which each post or comment is represented as a single file. I think submitting pull requests to fix another user's typos would be extremely funny, but also much less disruptive than pointing out typos in a separate comment.

<article data-inreplyto="meiklwuw/169 ajubeaox/foobar">
  <p>Both of you are completely wrong. Rather, the correct answer is <span data-inreferenceto="kowupize/203406141409">Kowupize's</span>.</p>
  </article>

Sometimes people say things in the heat of the moment that they regret, or which break the rules. Sometimes they accidentally reveal a bit of personal information that they want to quickly delete before the web scrapers / comment archivers get to the comment. Sometimes you just make an embarrassing typo that you want to fix. I assume the mods have access to comment history, but I don’t support everyone having access to everyone else’s comment history. Sure, nothing is ever really deleted from the internet, but that’s not really the debate.

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