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  • I can’t make it be -5 before I posted based on what I posted. Your edit obviously clarified what it meant for most people and turned around your negative. I’m not trying to be a jerk, I am literally defending myself from you.

    Whether you knew what your post should have meant or not, it was obviously not clear, I wasn’t the only person who read it the way I did. Why did you feel the need to edit it?

    This isn’t actually a big deal. I’m ok that it happened. Don’t worry about it.

    Edit: I will add that there is a reason it’s a common practice to put “edit:” in front of any edit that might change the context of a post, especially if there are already replies to it at the time that will change their meaning with that edit.




  • His question wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t edit your post, though. As my post would have referred to your first sentence absent the second. And you’ll notice everyone read your post the way I did before you edited it. When I came along, you had -5. The only reason mine seems like a weird response now is because I responded to what was effectively a completely different post, even if the original post is still in there.

    You were correct to edit your post. I don’t want to edit mine, but I will add context.

    “You” knew what your original post was supposed to mean. But if every other viewer saw it as meaning what was written instead and you had to turn it around, are all of us readers really the ones in the wrong?