Here's the tool, at my site. Usage is fairly simple: just copy the URL of any comment or post, paste it into the "Steemit URL" field, and hit Enter or click Go, and it'll show you via steemdb.com the edit history.

http://libertyteeth.xyz/show-steemit-edits/

 

This tool was inspired by @goldkey, who gave me an example from which I determined that it was a simple text transform, so wrapped a regex with a little PHP and a WordPress page, and now it's simple to see edits. Here's the beginning of that discussion -- the reason I had wanted to see edits in the first place was because of my first stalker, who downvoted 138 of my comments.

Now I have a second stalker, who has decided "I will downvote any post containing 'X'!" I don't care what 'X' is, if you are using regular expressions for evil (i.e., searching for "EOS" and downvoting any post which mentions it which earns more than $0.01), then you are not doing life right.

Anyway, this post is meant to be inspirational: to show that some good can come from evil's actions. I'm not sure what good will come from the current stalker's actions, but something will. Enjoy!

 

Page sources

NOTE: I do not know how best to put code into a Steemit post! The below uses too much whitespace, i.e. it's too "tall". I did it with the backtick characters at the beginning and end of each line of code, and then for lines that don't have a blank line after them, I had to add <br> to the end of each line so it wouldn't bring the next line up. But I'm sure there's an easy way to show code, I just haven't found it yet.

The WordPress page contains this code:

Enter the Steemit URL below, click "Go" and a new tab will open to the steemdb.com site, showing the edits for that comment. NOTE: doesn't open in a new tab just yet!

<form action="../process.php" method="post" name="myForm">

Steemit URL <input id="url" type="text" name="url" />

<input type="submit" value="Go" /></form>

<script type="text/javascript">

/* JS validation code here */

function validateForm()

{

/* Validating url field */

var x=document.forms["myForm"]["url"].value;

/* Simple validation, as an error will appear on steemdb.com if it's incorrect */

var pos=x.indexOf("steemit.com");

if (pos<0)

{

alert("No 'steemit.com' found in URL!");

return false;

}

}

</script>

The "../process.php" file contains this code:

<?php

// Get the form element

$url=$_POST["url"];

// Replace "steemit.com" with "steemdb.com", only the first instance

$pattern = '/steemit\.com/';

$replacement = 'steemdb.com';

$url = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $url);

// After the tag, delete everything up to and including the "#"

$pattern = '/^([^\/]+\/\/[^\/]+\/[^\/]+\/)([^\/]+\/)([^\/]+#)(.*)$/';

$replacement = '$1$4';

$url = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $url);

// Add "/edits" to the end

$url .= '/edits';

// Redirect to the page

header("Location: $url");

?>

The only issue with the tool at the moment is that it does not open in a new tab, which I would like it to do. I haven't looked into it; I'm sure it's something simple.

Enjoy!