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Edit a game comment with grace period so it's not marked (edited) ?

A topic by BdR Games created Aug 21, 2019 Views: 412 Replies: 2
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When leaving a comment on a game, click "Post comment", then realise there's a small typo and you can edit the comment. Why is the comment then marked as "(edited)" even when you edited like within 5 seconds to fix one single letter? You can't even see the edits so what's the point? 

I think there should be a sort of "grace period" like 5 minutes where you can freely edit a comment without it being marked as edited. I understand it could maybe perhaps serve a purpose to indicate an edit after someone else has already replied.  No need to keep a complete paper-trail of every typo right?

I know it's not really important, and other sites like youtube do this too. But I often make typos so yeah bit of a pet peeve...

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Maybe a good approach would be to compare the difference in text: If the edit was done quickly and only a few characters are changed then no edit log is made?

I think that would work. On that note, I would love to see a feature where if you delete your own comment (with no replies/or being a reply) that it wouldn't plaster "DELETED POST" on your own pages. Learned that one not too long ago, and it makes the page so ugly :/

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