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Originally Posted by browser2920
Mods can edit a post at any time while posters only have a half hour window. When I first started modding here, if there was a post would several good points in it, but then a one sentence personal insult, I would edit out the insult and leave a comment in the edit box. To my surprise I received a great deal of pushback on that, with posters insisting that there was something nefarious about a mod" ninja editing" someones post, and that a mod should either delete a post entirely or leave it alone. So this has become the standard approach now.
That's why people are warned that if you don't want to lose all your work, don't mix in good stuff with bad.
Right, but I was suggesting the edit would be in lieu of the poster being able to edit their own post after the half hour window had shut, and would be a c/p of the poster's new form of words in their PM reply to the mod request to tone it down.
It absolutely is infuriating to have someone edit your posts without your permission and it feels analogous to someone putting their hand over your mouth selectively.
If a poster refuses to agree to tone down a particularly egregiously abusive post and says they'd prefer it be deleted altogether, that's simple enough to execute. But, I dunno, it would have to be exceptionally bad in my book to warrant that. Have you heard how people sometimes quarrel in real life?
Last edited by jalfrezi; 03-10-2024 at 12:20 PM.