According to TOLORS, editing comments is a rejected suggestion:

The Official List of Rejected Suggestions wrote:

6.1 Delete or edit your comments everywhere

The inability to delete your comments everywhere is put in place so users do not post inappropriate comments or spam comments on other users' profiles, projects, or studios, just to delete them later on. In contrast, you are not really likely to spam your own projects or profile. The only benefits to this are to remove comments that you did not mean to post and to fix spelling errors. The former could be solved by thinking carefully before posting any comments, and the latter could be worked around by typing slowly and/or stating your mistakes in a reply to the comment. This also applies to forum posts; that is, a feature for Scratchers to delete their own forum posts will not be implemented.

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Editing comments could similarly lead to comment manipulation, such as a user commenting “I like this project,” waiting until someone replies with “I agree,” and then editing the original comment to say “I hate this project.” Allowing Scratch Team members to view the edit history of a comment does not make it easy to moderate, since then they have to look carefully at the context of each edit, which takes time.

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I have a solution to this, however. Only allow editing the comment until it gets a reply. This prevents the manipulation involved here, since it won't be possible to edit after somebody says “I agree” (or anything else).

Someone wrote:

but what if a reply is made while someone is editing the comment?

Just do what happens when A disables comments while B is writing one at the same time, prevent the edit from being submitted, with a clear warning about that.

Wouldn’t this confuse users who are wondering why the edit button disappeared?

SpyCoderX wrote:

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Wouldn’t this confuse users who are wondering why the edit button disappeared?

In my interpretation of the button it won't disappear, it just becomes grayed out and clicking it will show a note that editing comments with replies isn't possible to prevent manipulation.

man im tired icant make a mockup

Hmm. I don’t see a problem with this rn. Support!

But what if they say

BestCoder1234 wrote:

I HATE THIS PROJECT!!!!

and change it later on like in 15 minutes?

This could be solved by also making it not possible to edit once a comment has been flagged or reported.

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

(#5)
But what if they say

BestCoder1234 wrote:

I HATE THIS PROJECT!!!!

and change it later on like in 15 minutes?

This could be solved by also making it not possible to edit once a comment has been flagged or reported.

Then people will start reporting comments with typos randomly to stop them from fixing them. Maybe just leave it like that.

A-MARIO-PLAYER wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

(#5)
But what if they say

BestCoder1234 wrote:

I HATE THIS PROJECT!!!!

and change it later on like in 15 minutes?

This could be solved by also making it not possible to edit once a comment has been flagged or reported.

Then people will start reporting comments with typos randomly to stop them from fixing them. Maybe just leave it like that.

Who the heck would be THAT evil

user1:
says bad word
user2:
silently reports and doesnt reply
user1:
edits post to not have a bad word
st:
finally gets to the report but doesnt see anything bad since its edited so user1 isnt punished

Mockup Time!!!
scratchr2:

scratch-www:


god i love making mockups

starlightsparker wrote:

user1:
says bad word
user2:
silently reports and doesnt reply
user1:
edits post to not have a bad word
st:
finally gets to the report but doesnt see anything bad since its edited so user1 isnt punished

ST could see previous edits.

han614698 wrote:

Mockup Time!!!
scratchr2:

scratch-www:


god i love making mockups

How do u do that? Just edit html?

SpyCoderX wrote:

ST could see previous edits.

wouldnt it be time consuming for st to have to see edit history every time?
unless it shows both without having to click a dropdown or anything for st

SpyCoderX wrote:

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How do u do that? Just edit html?

HTML editing and a lot of patience since I don't code it professionally (so the links in my mockups don't go anywhere…)

starlightsparker wrote:

SpyCoderX wrote:

ST could see previous edits.

wouldnt it be time consuming for st to have to see edit history every time?
unless it shows both without having to click a dropdown or anything for st

It would probably just list out the versions.

han614698 wrote:

SpyCoderX wrote:

(#10)
How do u do that? Just edit html?

HTML editing and a lot of patience since I don't code it professionally (so the links in my mockups don't go anywhere…)

Cool! That’s basically how I do it. (Sometimes I use another program to edit the image.)

starlightsparker wrote:

SpyCoderX wrote:

ST could see previous edits.

wouldnt it be time consuming for st to have to see edit history every time?
unless it shows both without having to click a dropdown or anything for st

The latter

I would like to add that perhaps the comment should have a limit on the amount of times it can be edited, so someone can't just spam edit a comment and make it really hard for the ST to see what it says.

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:

I would like to add that perhaps the comment should have a limit on the amount of times it can be edited, so someone can't just spam edit a comment and make it really hard for the ST to see what it says.

I think there should be 1 edit each comment tbh. To save st’s time too when checking reports.

Actually, what if users can see edit history for any comment? This removes the “removing evidence” problem. It also means users can see if someone replaced their bad comments with something else.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Nobody is replying
so I bumped this post

starlightsparker wrote:

SpyCoderX wrote:

ST could see previous edits.

wouldnt it be time consuming for st to have to see edit history every time?

Indeed it would. The ability to edit comments would make it more difficult and/or time-consuming to moderate comments. This is a significant problem stated in the reason for rejection that has not been addressed by OP yet. As far as I can see, no solution is presented.

Za-Chary wrote:

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starlightsparker wrote:

SpyCoderX wrote:

ST could see previous edits.

wouldnt it be time consuming for st to have to see edit history every time?

Indeed it would. The ability to edit comments would make it more difficult and/or time-consuming to moderate comments. This is a significant problem stated in the reason for rejection that has not been addressed by OP yet. As far as I can see, no solution is presented.

Alright, here's a solution to that:
You can only make 3 edits to a comment, and you must wait 120 seconds between them. New Scratchers must wait 300 seconds instead, and can only make 2 edits.