Game mods unable to edit forum posts by other mods
6 years ago
United States

Over at the TTYD boards, we have a forum post that's kept up to date with copies of the game that go on sale, making it an easy place for potential runners to find discs that might be difficult to obtain in their region. To accomplish this, multiple game mods are responsible for updating the post periodically. Sometime between 10/10/17 and today, the ability for moderators to edit other moderators' forum posts was taken away, which seems like a silly feature to remove sitewide.

Zephiles likes this
United States

I'll talk to the staff about this. Editing was removed to prevent mods from trying to damn other users by altering what they said.

"Last edited" should be added sooner than later.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
blueYOSHI, Sjorec and 2 others like this
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Why do you find that silly? It is a good thing because some people used this power for evil. They edited innocent people's posts and tried to make them look like they bullied someone when they did nothing. I'm actually glad this feature was removed.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
France

To me, mods being able to edit other mods' posts make sense since there's a higher chance these posts are PSAs. You could go an extra step and restrict this to stickies.

Esperanto

It's one of those things where it's clearly a useful feature for decent people who are just trying to use the site; it's just unfortunately the case that there wasn't some sort of edit log, which allowed people to abuse the system for their shenanigans and make it look like other people were saying things they weren't.

United States

Updated so mods can edit other mod posts.

Habreno, Sjorec and 2 others like this
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Can mods also get to not edit but delete other user's posts, please?

Edited by the author 6 years ago
FINjimmy likes this
United States

@SpiderSponge We have problems with moderators deleting posts critical of said moderators. Super mods can still delete the posts, and if you really need something deleted, pass it through them. If they're not active, that can change.

Hako likes this