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The most annoying thing about editing in lichess

For example 6players vote you(they agree with you ) and when you decided to edit your post you have 0 vote and then when 10 players down vote you and you dicided to edit it you will still have 10 downvote
@dOnYa1386
But this is a must.For example:
Before Edit: ''I am not a racist.Please be respectful!''
70 likes
0 dislikes
After Edit : ''Haha i joked i am racist go cry''
Imagine second one getting 70 likes.It will be a disaster,right?
@AOOP09 but what if first the person says "i am racist" and gets 20 thousand something dislikes,then changes it into "jk i'm not racist",will it be fine if the post still has 20 thousand something dislikes?
#2: But what if I'd want them to keep the upvote for honesty? Too few people today are willing to discuss their character flaws, and that shows personal growth. Good on the poster for undergoing serious self-reflection and attempting to make a joke about himself.

Come to think of it, I'd probably be more inclined to upvote the second example than the first. The first example is (almost certainly fallacious) pandering to the audience in a bragging manner without providing any grounds for conversation; the second pokes fun at a society that canonizes anyone who claims to oppose racism, despite the fact that racism helped mankind survive attacks from other bands and tribes for thousands of year and is pretty much an evolutionary instinct at this point. As they said in Avenue Q:

"If we all could
Just admit
That we are racist
A little bit,
Even though we all
Know that it's wrong,
Maybe it would help us
Get along!"
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(PS: If this gets too many downvotes, I'm totally changing it to something completely inoffensive like "I like fluffy kittens," thus assuring a bountiful harvest of upvotes)
I think for full transparency, that all emoji reactions should be removed after an edit.
After all, if a text is edited, then the meaning of the emoji reactions have also changed.

To flip #2 augment: what if someone said "racism is good" and I down vote that comment, and then later, they change their comment to "It's bad to judge people for the colour of their skin"
My thumb down is still visible, but now it just makes me look like a horrible person. (Because people can't see the original comment, which was the cause of my downvote)
I think the best option would be to remove the emoji reaction feature at once. Will post it in Lichess feedback.

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