[Discussion] Should Lemmy allow mods/admins to edit user post data (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This comes up surprisingly often, but this comment chain in the recent AMA prompted me to start a general discussion to maybe put this discussion to rest.

The only other place I'm aware that this has been discussed in detail is this pull request from 2023, which the creator ultimately closed.

What I'm ultimately in favour of, and what actually gets requested (one, two, three), is letting mods edit the metadata around a post. Things like the NSFW toggle, or post tags in 1.0.

But I'm throwing this out to the floor. What, if anything, do you think mods should be able to change about a user's content?

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nope. And it wouldn't work very well with activityhub.

Not everyone who is on Lemmy is actually on the platform. If things get changed retroactively, it will look extremely weird with only Lemmy showing the change but every other fediverse platform showing the original, modlog or not.

At that point, I wouldn't trust Lemmy all that much anymore.

Edit: ah reread, tags and NSFW might be good for specific communities. Although again activityhub will be the issue.

I thought you were going with editing posts like on reddit that one time. That I'm opposed to.

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