The discussion is about sending notifications when someone edits a post that a user has liked. alexs suggests this to avoid users appearing to like posts they no longer agree with after edits. Richie proposes automatically removing likes from edited posts. However, sam states that likes being removed due to edits is not a viable option and instead suggests moderators reset likes in rare cases where a post is edited to become unreasonable. codinghorror agrees that this would be useful in rare cases. Thomas_DC argues that notifications would only be sent to those who liked the edited post, allowing them to request a moderator to reset likes if necessary, and that this would not add excessive noise.
I’d like to receive a notification if someone edits a post that I’ve liked.
This would avoid users appearing to like posts that they don’t agree with, once they’ve been changed.
Sometimes I only spot the edit once my like has been ‘frozen’ (x time after I’ve liked the post, the like can’t be removed) but I expect there are other posts that I’ve liked whose edits I never spot.
Apologies if this idea is a duplicate, I did look.
And/or to have the Likes automatically removed from an edited post?
Likes removed due to edit is not on the cards, this would have to be a plugin.
My preferred solution here, due to the rarity of the situation is just to flag and have moderators reset likes on cases like this where there “good post” → “like” → “edit to make post unreasonable” chain.
Notify on edit after like, is an interesting concept, but we are protective of attention so I am not super enthused about adding more noise.
I have wanted this in some rare cases. Basically you need to ‘reset’ the post for a variety of reasons. Very very rare though.
I agree to be protective of attention, but the notification would only be sent to those who liked the edited post, not to all watching the topic.
And it’s required to be aware that it has been edited, to be able to require a moderator to reset the likes.