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

submitted 5 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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[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

As per usual, the "free speech on someone else's dime" folks think the people running the forums they feel entitled to shouldn't have actual moderation tools. Shocking.

Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts. But all Reddit allows is to delete, and so this space that apes some of the worst bits about Reddit thinks they shouldn't do any better than the lowest of fucking low bars.

[-] DerPlouk@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts.

You are perfectly right about this. However the times, or at least the environment have changed. I trusted most web forum moderators for acting in good faith, one or two orders of magnitude more than any Reddit (or now Lemmy) moderator...

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