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Old 07-21-2008, 12:47 PM
cacophony
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Re: moderators editing members posts
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Originally Posted by dubman View Post
as professor hinted at, edits happen to posts all the time by moderators fiddling around. they're mostly good natured. you should have seen the escalating sig-altering dorkery between myself and BLD. i've had my profile and sig changed by yannick and tom. i've had tom edit thread titles basically calling me a faggot. the latter hit a minor nerve but it was ultimately just fun n games and doesnt mean that peoples writerly words are being misrepresented.
that's great if you guys are fine with that. i'm not. i post in 2 forums: world and underworld. on the very very very rare occasion i might venture out but we're talking probably fewer than 10 posts outside of world and underworld in all of the years i've been a member here.

it's a matter of forum characteristics. i used to run a forum on my own server years ago, and it was a comparatively small group of close friends just yucking it up for kicks. i made everyone a moderator specifically because editing each others' posts was a game we played.

it's all about context. it's not black and white, cut and dried.