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Addressing members concerns over post edits


David

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Concerns were raised by a couple of members in the Manchester Explosion thread that moderators have the power to edit posts and were not told of any changes to their posts or why posts were hidden.

I did explain in the topic that if there is an issue with posts 99% of the time they would be hidden, not edited. The rare occasions that they are edited is to fix broken links, include links to source or remove a needless personal insult at the end of the post.

I also explained it would be far too time consuming for moderators to engage with members when posts were edited or hidden as it can result in lengthy discussions where ultimately we all agree to disagree.

The feedback/criticism hasn't gone through one ear and out the other, I have listened and understood your concerns.

As a part solution I have made changes.

When a post is edited now by yourself or a moderator a note is left at the bottom of the post. There is no avoiding it. You will see a "Reason for Edit" box at the bottom, leave it blank and the post will still leave a edited by note.

I have asked the moderators to leave a reason, even if it is to fix a link so you know why your post was hidden. 

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Because each edit creates a record in our database log, left uncleared the database will grow super large over time so it is essential that these are pruned automatically over time. I have it set currently to 7 days. Past this period no posts should be edited anyway, members still are restricted to editing within 15 minutes.

I accept this may give conspiracy theorists "well they'll just wait 7 days now before editing my post", if you believe that there is little point me even responding. 

With regards to hidden posts, that remains unchanged. I will not ask the moderators to create a private discussion with members or post publicly that their post was hidden each time.

Dog with a bone.

If your click send and you see your post on the forum but cannot see later, a moderator or myself will have removed it. You are more than welcome to contact any of us that are online at the time to ask why politely and you will always be given a reply, you may not agree with the answer but you will have one.

I hope this goes someway to ease minds that we are silently editing posts, changing members, opinions, that has never been the case and have to say slightly disappointed some believed that.

 

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1 hour ago, Mostyn6 said:

When can we have the sausage filter back? 

I'm afraid not all members were as welcoming of the sausage, not to upset anymore members this week I will leave it as the ***

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On 30/05/2017 at 14:16, McRamFan said:

Feel free not to leave a reason if any of my posts get edited. Your house your rules, and I'm not that insecure.

Do you have to use this thread to try and passive(ly?) aggressively score points? I've seen you ask people not to twist your words on more than one occasion when they weren't even doing that so I think I'll reserve judgement on how 'insecure' you are.

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4 minutes ago, StringerBell said:

Do you have to use this thread to try and passive(ly?) aggressively score points? I've seen you ask people not to twist your words on more than one occasion when they weren't even doing that so I think I'll reserve judgement on how 'insecure' you are.

Here we go again...

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I posted something today which said it would need approval by a moderator, never had it before?

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1 hour ago, Paul71 said:

I posted something today which said it would need approval by a moderator, never had it before?

Did it contain a tweet from one of the fake news transfer rumour sites?

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6 minutes ago, David said:

Did it contain a tweet from one of the fake news transfer rumour sites?

It contained a tweet, never looked to see if it was a fake site or not. But yes.

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1 minute ago, Paul71 said:

It contained a tweet, never looked to see if it was a fake site or not. But yes.

Will be that then, I've brought in a fake news filter to cut back on the rubbish that starts from a basement keyboard

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On ‎31‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 15:47, BurtonRam7 said:

Here we go again...

I finally put him back on ignore with his Trumper mates.

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