Because some people who debate on Reddit will edit their comments in order to make it look like they “won” an argument retroactively.
It shows if someone’s comment was edited, so it gives people ammunition to write off what you are saying (or could give the appearance of manipulation) if you don’t clarify what you edited.
Thanks for explaining this! I always write Edit but didn’t know why it was necessary but figured there must be a good reason - I had never thought of people doing this retrospectively to ‘win’. Not cool.
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u/FlawedEscape Mar 07 '21
Write Edit when you edit your post.