no longer allowed in later postmill versions, btw. imagine the advancements of society if this website ran a postmill version that wasn't from 2018

We value our traditions, don't erase our culture.

So, we have moderation logs, but AFAIK they don't mark edits. This is good for, say, scouring the site of spam links or porn posts or whatnot.

For the health of a larger site run by postmill, I'd say it's definitely bad. Forum mods should not be able to edit someones post. Admins would have the power but probably shouldn't.

Not to be a "muh freeze peach" chud, but I think it's plainly icky for mods and admins to edit posts, even in jest. The only exceptions I could see are syntactically-clear mod edits, a-la "USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST".

There should be a way to mark a post as being the cause of a ban without editing it.

I was thinking the use case would be like, if someone doxxed someone it could be scrubbed for example. But if it did get edited by a mod it should be marked as such. Iunno.

it was hard to upgrade last time i tried due to some edits i had to make to make things work on heroku

BUT... i have between christmas and new years off and was planning on giving it a go again then

i wouldn't say it's a security risk as it isn't really a vector for acquiring another user's personally identifiable information, but it isn't really the best thing. if we were a larger site i'd be more concerned about it but it's something i keep an eye out for.

that said even if mods were prevented from editing others' posts i can still edit the database so there still needs to be some trust when using a site like this. not that i'd ever want to do that unless something was broken from a technical standpoint ew. i'm not interested in being a bad person. it is important to think about when you use sites run by someone who isn't you though (read: corporations).

I'm gonna cryptographically sign all my posts.

please add your -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- block so i can just assume your messages belong to you without actually verifying this

in a just world, one would be paid a living wage for sitting in an office and hitting the "update postmill" button all day

ok

yeah, for real

dear admins,

please write this post for me

just replace all this with something you'd think I'd say

thanks

• srsly