Wow, and you guys think it is right for readers to read a post by somebody, while content may have been altered by somebody else?I checked and confirmed that one of the moderators fixed a spelling issue. Technically the (correctly spelled) word was a homophone if you are interested.
FWIW, I modify user posts almost daily. It’s almost always embedding attached images or an improperly structured quote (usually where your reply is part of the quoted text instead out outside of it).
My most recent edit was to a post by @dang so the overreach has no bounds! Moderators have an option to write a little message to the author explaining the mod. I don’t always use it, particularly when embedding images.
The only time the thematic content gets altered is when an otherwise great post flies off the rails for one sentence, and mods don’t want to delete the whole post. In those cases the author is always notified.
I get censoring by removing a message, but you guys can attribute to somebody something that the person never wrote? I fully trust the edits have been benign, but the modality is just scary. Do you get that this can be abused?
Do you grasp the concept of impersonation?
When I worked at Facebook we were told that an employee doing that would be walked out the same day.