I think it's happened to me dozens of times in the past month. Always when bickering with a troll. In seven plus years, it never happened once before that.
It'd be hard to prove, but I think it's happened for the past few months. In fact, i think it happened to me three times, then one of the trolls pointed it out to me, and asked me if I noticed it. I did, but didn't respond.
Started to happen about the same time you started to see +4,000 post every day, and up/down vote stats were removed from comments.
But, it just happened to me a few minutes ago to me. That's some sick hardcore trolling. Website running off its visitors that way seems odd, unless the website wasn't really made for people like me.
Well it's really just for the OP's benefit. If comment-editing by someone besides the user was real, it'd be pointed out by anyone who bothers to read trough the open-source code.
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4 SnowcrappedMountain 2015-04-21
Wow. Is this really happening? Do you have any proof of this?
0 Slipgrid 2015-04-21
I think it's happened to me dozens of times in the past month. Always when bickering with a troll. In seven plus years, it never happened once before that.
It'd be hard to prove, but I think it's happened for the past few months. In fact, i think it happened to me three times, then one of the trolls pointed it out to me, and asked me if I noticed it. I did, but didn't respond.
Started to happen about the same time you started to see +4,000 post every day, and up/down vote stats were removed from comments.
But, it just happened to me a few minutes ago to me. That's some sick hardcore trolling. Website running off its visitors that way seems odd, unless the website wasn't really made for people like me.
3 HaltNWO 2015-04-21
It's really easy to prove: Take a screen-cap of each comment you make so you'll have an un-editable copy of it.
2 gwsb 2015-04-21
credibility-wise, it doesn't really score high. Screenshots are easily doctored.
1 HaltNWO 2015-04-21
Well it's really just for the OP's benefit. If comment-editing by someone besides the user was real, it'd be pointed out by anyone who bothers to read trough the open-source code.
0 gwsb 2015-04-21
MMm... true. Keep in mind there is a chunk of code that is locked and not available for public scrutiny though.
0 Slipgrid 2015-04-21
Yeah, that's what I'll do.
:(
1 a_shill 2015-04-21
Maybe you just forgot what you wrote in the first place?
-1 Slipgrid 2015-04-21
Eh, maybe it was aliens?
3 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
Mods do not have this ability.
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-04-21
What about the TIL April Fool's CSS prank?
1 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
You can add a footnote to comments via CSS but you can't edit them.
And regarding post titles, technically you can cover them using CSS but doing that means a shadowban from the admins.
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-04-21
I would argue adding content to a comment is in fact editing it, as it is not the originally intended comment.
1 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
Technically it is editing a comment but as I said, any nefarious use of the CSS in this way makes the admins come down on you hard.
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-04-21
...unless it's April Fool's, right?
1 gwsb 2015-04-21
...or said admin is the one doing it.
1 unclescham 2015-04-21
yeah, accountability in hierarchy. Does that baloney have a first name?
3 h1ppie 2015-04-21
It's oh-ESS-see-aye-are. that baloney also has a second name...
1 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
What do you mean?
1 unclescham 2015-04-21
Some people can break the rules and get away with it if it serves the message.
0 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
That doesn't even make sense. And honestly it was a joke, a little leeway is not a big deal.
0 Slipgrid 2015-04-21
Um... not general subreddit mods... site owner mods...
3 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
They're called admins.
-2 Slipgrid 2015-04-21
What are you called?
3 DaedalusMinion 2015-04-21
A mod in my subreddits, a user outside them.