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>Fixed now

Flexing your unlimited comment edit privileges I see ;)

I'm afraid so. But if anyone else wants their comment edited after the edit window has expired, they can always ask us to do it for them (hn@ycombinator.com is the best way).

As a compulsive self-editor, I'd rather not have any timeout on edits for anybody, but unfortunately that would leave threads open to really bad forms of abuse.

As much as I love going back and editing things, I think this is a good solution. On Reddit it's even a recurring game to challenge people to ask questions and then edit them to make the answer look bad.

I'm not convinced this argument holds for the time window limiting deletion of comments.

> On Reddit it's even a recurring game to challenge people to ask questions and then edit them to make the answer look bad.

An easy way to prevent that is to quote the parent comment while replying. Like I did in this comment.

That helps, but if you forget to do it you can end up getting hosed. Also, it's confusing to the reader if the quote is no longer present in the comment being quoted.

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