moderators editing members posts

[potatobroth]

To speak a little on this, I had NO idea that moderators were editing comments to make jokes or whatever. Thus, every comment that has been moderated-for-humor has been read, by me and others, as words chosen by the credited author. That's just not right and as the moderator of a much less serious forum (not saying this is the epitome of serious either) I would never edit a user's comments for ANY reason. It's practically the worst thing a moderator can do. Moderators aren't around for our amusement, they are around to make sure topics don't turn into hateful threads, correct errant links, fix bad HTML, and delete spam. Other than that the posts should remain as how the author intended.

If a moderator wants to make a joke, they should just quote and comment in the same way as everyone else. The second a moderator takes a different approach to their position, the community will start to crumble as posters will rethink their reactions.