There was a discussion about this article 2 years ago here and here, but I thought it’s such an interesting a novel concept full of potential that it’s worth a repost.
I don’t see the usefulness of that one compared to just deleting your comment in that scenario. This one will just be abused by trolls posting outrageous claims and then preventing people from replying by flagging the mistake option.
Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It’s also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it’s unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.
I don’t see the usefulness of that one compared to just deleting your comment in that scenario. This one will just be abused by trolls posting outrageous claims and then preventing people from replying by flagging the mistake option.
Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It’s also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it’s unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.
I don’t see a problem because the troll’s post will then be permanently marked as not true.
That and the problem people are the ones who wouldn’t use this function in the first place.
What if the troll move is to post something that is true and mark it as a mistake?