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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: There is no point in calling out your edit if nobody has replied to you.

All over Reddit, I see this:

>Yes that's a good point, I agree. 

>Edit: spelling

....but nobody has replied to them. What's the point of calling out your edit in this case? 

I understand why you'd call out an edit if people have replied to you pointing out the spelling error, so you're acknowledging the correction so they don't look wrong. But if nobody has replied to you, why call out the edit?

The only answer I've ever seen when I ask is, "So people know what I edited and don't think I was being dishonest and changing something significant."

But if you were being dishonest, you could also just lie about what you edited, so still, calling out your edit doesn't accomplish anything. Either people will see that you edited the post and trust you that you didn't change anything significant, or they will think you are being dishonest. If they think you're being dishonest, they will just assume that you are being dishonest in what you claimed to edit, too. You *could* significantly change your comment and lie and say "Edit: spelling" all the same.

So what's the point of it?
gpt
When you edit a post, it gets a little \* next to it, indicating it was edited. If someone subsequently replies, it allows other readers to see that your edit didn't change anything to which the replier has replied.

In addition, if you write a post and then start editing before any replies appear, it might get replied to while you are drafting your edit.