You would see the edited comment if we ' re going with the naive manual database edit story , which is most plausible . However , just as shadowbanned users see fake upvotes , it ' s entirely possible to create a special gaslighting code infrastructure that shows a special version of reality just to you , where your account or IP never gets shown the edited version of your own comments . That would actually be a significant technical investment reserved only for antispam or spyvsspy stuff , though not petty trolling . <| sep |> Lol don ' t worry about it I find it interesting how other countries do stuff <| sep |> I kind expected mud slinging but not this much in under a week . Have a thick skin though . It ' s clear i ' m ruffling some feathers , all because I felt like there weren ' t enough vendors offering a good enough service and decided to start up . Taking away business from other vendors obviously provokes the strongest of reactions