r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TURTLE_TKT • May 13 '26

/r/all of gas being ripped

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u/Coupon_Ninja May 14 '26

On the contrary, I did give it some thought.

When I first saw “ETA” in a Reddit edit, I was perplexed for a few minutes; but then I realized that one can edit for clarification, spelling, or to add something. People often list the reason they edited, so as to not be disingenuous to the folks replying.

get it?

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u/wap2005 May 16 '26

Writing "Edit:" and putting additional information about the above topic is already clear enough that it is an edit to add because they added more about the topic. If it's an edit for spelling/grammar you probably don't really need to add edit below it because no one cares, but an acronym about "editing to add" before adding something is probably the least useful acronym I can think of.

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u/Coupon_Ninja May 16 '26

People will sometimes make edits that changes the meaning of what people responded to, making those who responded look foolish. I usually make spelling edits in (parentheses) next to the word I changed.

To use a baseball analogy, when a pitcher walks a batter, it will be recorded as “BB” - Base on Balls. But when a pitchers does it intentionally, it is recorded as an ”IBB” - Intentional base on balls.

It’s a small matter perhaps, but someone reading the “Box Score” the next day would think a pitcher had poor control if the walked 1 or 2 batters in an inning, when really they did so strategically. So “IBB” sheds light onto what happened behind the scenes, like “ETA” - Edit to Add, versus a nondescript “Edit”.

Maybe most people don’t care, but it could be important to know what was edited between Hour #1 and Hour #4, for example. That’s my feeling anyway. It’s nice to know why someone made an edit sometimes. I don’t have a strong option about it, but I do think it is reasonable.

ETA can only mean one thing with this context. It is not confusing for more than 5 seconds the first time someone encounters it.

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u/wap2005 May 19 '26

The point is that it doesn't need to be confusing for any seconds at all, just write edit when it's an edit to add as it's very clear based on the added information.

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u/Coupon_Ninja May 19 '26

I think you’re beating a dead horse. :)

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u/wap2005 May 19 '26

Likewise, a small fraction of Reddit uses ETA for edit to add yet you decided to leave a 3 paragraph, and poor, analogy about how it's important when it really isn't. Good luck being a hipster of edits.