TOPIC: Moderators Editing Without The Consent Of Users

I would be happy if forum moderators stop editing user's posts without their consent, this is not the first time this has happend to me and if one of my posts is being edited I would like to know what exact changes were made otherwise it might make me or another user who's post has been edited look bad towards the community.

My post was the Zarp Birthday List, it was edited by OnionRings for the reason of removing CM banned users, due to his removal without my premission or consent these users would look to me as the one responsible, if I would have been told that I have the names of newly CM banned users in my post I would have notified them in personal chat that I've been told to remove them off the list but that I will store a backup of the text with their date so that when they are hopefully unbanned I can restore their name and date to the post.

OnionRings's actions have put me in a difficult situation which now forces me to explain to each and every one of the players whose names have been removed that I'm deeply sorry, furthermore I have no idea if he has changed anything else as I have not backed up the text which forces me to go through all the comments and check if the names are indeed listed.

It's his job. If you started spamming porn on the forums, he isn't going to kindly ask you to stop. I know that is more extreme than removing CM banned users, but you're just finding something to be angry at people for.

Could have just asked you to remove them.. xD

Jim_Jam wrote:

It's not really a big deal if he asked you or not they would have still been removed from the list. He is just doing his job and enforcing the TOU.

It's not really a big deal having names of community banned people on the threads it's not like you are discussing them but my point is moderators can edit any post they feel breaks the terms of use.

_Max wrote:
agreed.

_Max wrote:
Just how can I as a user know thats the only thing he has changed? as far as anyone can know this moves on from a birthday list post to a report abuse on someone, if a moderator can change whatever he wants without an inspection or a way for users to know he doesn't interfere with their words / work than something isn't right.

AfroHat wrote:
moderators are supposed to be trusted to not abuse their power.

Teddyy wrote:
This is so true. The moderation team is hear to enforce the TOU and if they feel as though it is not meant to be there then they have the right to take it away because as max said it would have get removed anyway so onion was just doing whats right and anyway i dont see this being such a big deal.

Hey at least yours' don't get deleted lol

Anyways chill bro, it's just a birthday thread.

AfroHat wrote: He had all rights to edit it, just deal with it because you were breaking the TOU due to the mentioning of community banned members. If you don't like it then go report Onion for it but I can assure you that will be a waste of time because if anything, he's doing what is right for you, and the community.

The moderation teams duty is to enforce the TOU and if they feel as a post breaks TOU they are allowed to edit or remove it as its their job to do so. But in this case i think it would have been better to perhaps inform afrohat of this and he himself could have removed the names and kept their dates noted incase of them getting unbanned. But onion did nothing wrong here, he did his job and have all the rights to do so.
I think onion does a good job on the forums

Moderators only edit posts. If the post breaks TOU . or if they want to prefix a template for you .
OR if they wanna be helpful to you.