[dave5104]

> * Bait and switch. Now replies to the original tweet will be out of context

I used to think this could be a problem too... but Reddit has had an edit button as long as I can remember, and bait and switch doesn't really seem to be much of a problem.

Perhaps it'd be more troublesome with the concept of retweets or quote tweets?

[banana_giraffe]

Maybe it's not a problem, but one of the most upvoted comments is the result of a bait-n-switch:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really...

The comment Rick Astley is replying to was originally something like "please swear at me!" ... quite a bit different than what it is now.

[nullc]

> I used to think this could be a problem too... but Reddit has had an edit button as long as I can remember, and bait and switch doesn't really seem to be much of a problem.

Anyone who does it enough to be irritating (instead of funny) will just find themselves banned by subreddit mods or otherwise they're doing it in a subreddit where it doesn't matter and no one will care.

The same community controls don't exist in twitter, so its plausible that it might be more damaging there. But so what? Many of the benefits are clear, the risks speculative. They could mitigate with a history button.

Wikipedia lets arbitrary users edit other users posts and gets by just fine-- not just the encyclopedia pages but the discussion pages too. Part of that is because it has a history so funny business is easily caught, but part of it is that if you give people more way to behaving unambiguously abusively if they intentionally chose to do so, some people will take you up on the offer and you can just remove them from the platform without regret. In that case everyone will be better off than if they didn't have the option to shoot themselves in the foot to begin with.

[lupire]

Twitter userbase is far, far dumber than Wikipedia's

[Graffur]

Once you see anything controversial on wikipedia you'll see how dumb the editors are there too