Editing user posts
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Topic: Editing user posts
Posted By: Evolver
Subject: Editing user posts
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 13:18
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Referencing http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=59084 - this thread . Yes, it is funny. And I have as much of a sense of humor as the next guy, maybe more so.
And the poster is definitely a buffoon.
But isn't it bad form, other than to remove objectionable material, to edit a user's post? ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 13:38
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^ Usually we only edit posts to remove dubious links - especially those to blogs and other forms of illegal downloads. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 13:59
| At least it shows that an admin edited it. It is funny, but, and I'm sure the admins would follow this usually, but really it should be clearly indicated where the words are not the posters' own. I think this is a rare deviation from their usual policy. I do think it improved the post, however. At another site I was a complusive editor of other people's posts whenever I saw a spelling mistake, or very bad grammar (didn't automatically show that I'd edited their posts), but if I removed or changed content then I would note it. e.g. Edited by Logan for abusive comments. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 14:02
 ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 14:06
Aspeshley n thas plaice! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 14:13
| It was a much slower board than this one, and I had much too much free time on my hands -- as opposed to now where I make much too much free time, but should be doing other things. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 30 2009 at 02:33
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Further to Dean's post, we edit posts which are saveable in preference to deleting them all together. Rest assured though, it is only done rarely, we really do have better things to do.
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