Update 2.47.0.91

Talking about posts deleted by moderators is against the rules.

Linguistic errors is not the main issue (though that happens on occasion as well and something we all can make mistakes on). The main issue is entire sentences that are added/removed to completely change the meaning of your initial response in a thread or on a specific subject only after having gotten answers and/or talking to someone for 3-4 replies. You then respond after that edit (and 3-4 answers into that conversation) as if you made no edit at all to the first post and it always said what you now have edited it to say.

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I have amended the post you replied to, to specify I think I was the one that deleted it.

Now that makes less sense, why would you yourself delete those posts to begin with and what was then the point of commenting here if you deleted them yourself (which would then also add to the issue instead of mitigating it)?

Well, I’m also a dude that naively thought everyone would read edited posts without me saying they were edited… Stupidity requires training to fix. XD

So you expected others to constantly scroll back to read all your replies in a thread to see if any of them have been edited every time they want to reply to you?

Additionally not even acknowledging the mistake to begin with and act as if you never made the mistake (thus also making the other user look like they were the one in the wrong and the one that made a mistake)?

Yep, 100%. I unironically expected this.
I was horrifically naive to think and expect that.
Stupid.

I also thought that the act of editing was enough to admit mistakes, but I know that I should vocalize my mistakes more.

My default for correcting a mistake is this:

  1. Respond to either the person who corrected you or your original post with. “I’ve corrected the post” or something to that affect. Because most people will not re-read an entire conversation just to be double checking whether or not the entire conversation has changed

  2. With the original post edit. I would leave the original comment unchanged, but add a correction at the bottom of it. That way people can see both the ammendment and the original comment.

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