I’m a newbie on Medium and I was wondering about this, so thanks for the info!

Just last week I submitted an article to P.S. I Love You and it was rejected with helpful feedback, so I worked on it again until I was completely sick of it and resubmitted. It was accepted and published the second time around, which was great, but then I was rereading it (seriously, why do we endlessly reread our own work anyway? Are we really that self-centered? LOL!) and I saw that in my vigorous rewrites I had a repeated phrase. Embarrassing! And then I wasn’t even sure if I could go back and edit it, especially since it was published by a third party.

Fortunately, I realized that I could, but it was interesting that it even got through the publication process like that, with three extra words that were identical to the three words preceding them.

None of us is perfect! Even books get printed with typos! Still, I wonder if the editing feature might ever be abused– I wonder this on social media platforms too. I mean, you could write a post about your stance on something, have tons of people agree with you in the comments, and then you could go back and edit the whole thing to be the opposite viewpoint. Then snap a screenshot of how everyone agrees with the (now edited) view.

Something I’ve always wondered about…