My Mistakes

Introduction

Although this should maybe be a Journal, 01, or FYI piece but it is about two places where we often make mistakes, and people often then add another comment to point out their errors and correct them, but there is no need to point out that you have made an error. So I don't have much to write about so I am going to post this in Writers (although I suppose I could have put it in Critique, Fiction or Poets as they allow stories with less than six hundred words.

This is How

On Vocal we will leave a comment, and usually I make a spelling mistake or realise I have not said exactly what I want, so I select the three dots against the comment, copy any text I want to reuse, and then delete the comment and post a new one.

Note if you delete a comment that has a reply, I think the reply stays.

On Facebook, it is slightly different, because you have the option of editing your comment, so you can make the correction and no one is any wiser. This, in theory, could be abused, for instance, you could post something saying "Isn't Such A thing Wonderful", and someone could reply saying "I Totally Agree With You" and then you could go back and edit your post to say "Isn't Such A thing Awful" and the original comment would still say "I Totally Agree With You".

This may be why Vocal does not allow editing of comments, which I am fine with although a lot of Creators want to be able to edit comments.

Conclusion

As you can see, this is not much information, but I do think it will be useful for some creators who are unaware of these options. Often people then say "Oh I am such a whatever" but if no one tells you or shows you then how are you supposed to become aware?

This is just me showing and telling.

Thank you so much for reading.

The music is "Mistake" by Moby