Do you stand behind your posts?

[Janny]

Hi friends
Have you ever posted anything on a public forum and then had a second thought and remove your post? What about removing OTHER people's post ? That is if you have the way to do it. Have you, will you?

[joanneloo]

Remove?? If I remember correctly, I have never done that, Perhaps just edited the posts. Removing other people's post? Nope, never done that before. For deleting other peope's posts, I think only mod or admin can do it right?

[Janny]

thanks for your insight, jo.
what about having your posts deleted? anybody ever experienced that? cos i witness that i think sometime last year. it happened before my very eyes when posts were appearing and disappearing on a certain forum, like flickering before me

[edith]

I am so new to this cyber world. Jan, does this really happen? As in Mod removing post. Could it be that the content is crude or for any other reasons?

I am beginning to feel "unsafe" now.

[Janny]

From what I read online at that time, the content of first deleted post wasn't crude. It was very matter of fact-ly, answering a question posed by the moderator/owner.
well, i suppose the mod wasn't happy with the answer for some unexplained reason. Strangely, the initial question that prompted the reply was also deleted by the mod. Probably out of guilt (hm.. why did i ask that question, stupid me, bang head on the wall 3x, delete question...) But hey, if I didn't witness it myself I would have thought everything was hanky dory in that forum

[linlin]

Jan, I know what u meant. Personally, I have not experienced posts being deleted but being edited, yeah. It was annoying to me tho, because I feel that it is an act of disrespect to edit someone's post & it is juz downright rude to even delete someone's post.

[min]

Yeah, agree with lin that editing someone's posts is a form of disrespect especially without the person's prior knowledge. We have a freedom of speech in what we want to share & express as long as it's not crude.

[edith]

wow! then we better WATCH what we "say"!!!

Is this a standard practice in cyber world? ie deleting or editing post without informing the other party?

[Janny]

Edith
I think it is not what we say that matters, but what the mod thinks. I remember what I saw written by the poster, which was deleted by the moderator. She was just answering the moderator question whether (believe it or not) CAN SHE COOK.

Funnily this question posed by the mod was also deleted by the mod. Probably trying to cover her track.

[lilyng]

janny

i had my post disappeared once and i thought that my computer know how was the problem. now i know that it has been deleted and not due to my own stupidity. thank you for enlightening us in this matter cos now i have more confidence in myself when computer is concerned.

thanks

[mellie]

I haven´t had any posts deleted before but definitely got mine edited Made me feel kinda silly to post in the first place! The only thing I have edited for others is maybe correcting the pic´s size. But that is not that bad, or is it?!

[Janny]

Edith
To answer your question, I would say probably it is not the standard practice. So far I have only come across 3 forums that did that out of so many I have seen.

In the first one, the mod edited the message but put a note saying it was edited for fixing the quotation. The poster didn't know how to use the quote command properly and therefore jumbled up his own message with the one he was quoting. Fair enough - and probably the mod did contact that poster privately before editing, I don't know.

The second one, the mod actually posted below the original post to ask for permission to edit the post, also for fixing up quotation.

Third one is the one we all know so well. Edited blatantly. So not so much a common practice eh?

Anyway, probably nobody should take it to their heart, because that said mod is supposedly an ex editor of some publication