Lack of asterix means definite proof that the quote is fake.
I could find a comment of yours that you edited after publishing, and comment a fake “quote of the original” on it.
See, I agree that having an unedited comment is very important for verifying predictions later- but nyan_sandwich’s comment won’t count to a future reader as infallible evidence of what Costanza once said. The future reader must consider the possibility that nyan_sandwich was lying.
(Of course, ve wasn’t. But we’re all being pedantic here.)
I could find a comment of yours that you edited after publishing, and comment a fake “quote of the original” on it.
See, I agree that having an unedited comment is very important for verifying predictions later- but nyan_sandwich’s comment won’t count to a future reader as infallible evidence of what Costanza once said. The future reader must consider the possibility that nyan_sandwich was lying.
(Of course, ve wasn’t. But we’re all being pedantic here.)
Dammit, I forgot that the underscore in nyan sandwich’s name would translate into italics. And for obvious reasons, I ain’t editing that comment.
So what? None of that impacts my point that the relation between the two comment pairs in question is not symmetric in the way originally implied.