the ability to edit titles is great. But the ability to edit the URL of a post is dangerous. - Lemmy.world
lemmy.world
1. I create a well crafted post to a normal site that gets 10.000 upvotes. 2. I change the URL to a malicious site. 3. ??? 4. Profit

I don’t know how to crosspost properly.

I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility

  • njinx@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Yeah this seems like a pretty huge oversight. I’d file an issue on GitHub ASAP.

  • trent@kbin.social
    0·
    2 years ago

    On Kbin’s end the thread ID is 57540 and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn’t change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
    Try this: https://kbin.social/m/sysadmin@lemmy.world/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPD

        • teuast@lemmy.world
          0·
          2 years ago

          there was an entire genre of posts where posters would say “ask me any question and then edit your comment to make me look bad”

          there were also times i’d call out a racist and they’d edit their comment to make it look like i’d called out as racist someone who was saying something totally innocuous. but then i was usually not the only one doing it, and the comments in questions usually got downvoted to oblivion, not to mention the time-of-edit indicators, so anybody with half a brain cell could figure out exactly what had happened.

          • MarxusOrlyius@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            there were also times i’d call out a racist and they’d edit their comment to make it look like i’d called out as racist someone who was saying something totally innocuous.

            This is why you I pretty much always quote what I’m replying to.