Originally Posted by
GUWonder
So what happens if a post that is "liked" gets its content edited and ends up having a different meaning than it initially had at the time the post was "liked"?
There is room for mischievous and misleading behavior if the "likes" don't disappear upon a post being edited for content.
What/who determines whether the editing, possibly done in multiple steps, of a post affects its "content"? It would be an incredible amount of work for mods to examine this and I'm not aware of automated software capabilities that would consistently be accurate.