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I did edit my comment but I'm pretty sure I didn't say "do as we say" because that is not what I think of the situation.

FWIW, it is normal for me to go through a couple drafts of my comments on any topic. If you look at my posts on Reddit you will see they almost all have a "*" that shows they were edited, for the same reason. I don't know why some people are so quick to try to find malicious intent in everything.



Hacker News tries to set a higher standard of discourse than Reddit.

In these sorts of threads, it is polite to readers to post

After edit:

if a comment is substantially edited. I give examples of this in my threads. The possibility of posts being edited is one reason why I always select-copy-and-paste to quote text from other people's comments here, to avoid introducing misquotations through my own typing mistakes.




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