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hollyhoppet admin wrote

Reply to Does it seem like a security risk to have mods be able to edit other people's posts? by flabberghaster

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).

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twovests wrote

Reply to Does it seem like a security risk to have mods be able to edit other people's posts? by flabberghaster

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".

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