That's not true for any website with a rating system that I use. Most edits do not modify the central meaning of the message, instead being about something minor like typos or additions to the text. Everybody is aware that people might quote their messages in their own posts just as they might make an edit, and the edit system is basically never egregiously abused. There are really lots of upsides and no plausible downsides.
(Mostly unrelated: I didn't try it out, but it seems to me that one can rate one's own posts. Why? And why do I see a significantly low probability rating for my own posts?) |