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Agustino December 11, 2017 at 13:39 2600 views 11 comments
Quoting jamalrob
Can we please keep questions about moderation to Feedback Tiff?

So according to your good reason, it's alright for a moderator to go around editing another poster's posts for no reason right? The Terms of Service state that we retain full copyright of the posts. If a moderator edits our post, it is as if we ourselves posted that - and it is so for any third party.

The Terms of Service state clearly that you only have the right to delete content, but under no heading does it ever state that you can create content in the name of other people. So if a moderator edits any post it should be made clear that it is edited and which part was edited, and why the action was undertaken.

And what's even worse, when that moderator in question was asked if they moderated the said person, they said no, outright lying. How is this acceptable?

Comments (11)

Shawn December 11, 2017 at 13:46 #132582
Aren't we taking things a little too seriously here?
Michael December 11, 2017 at 14:35 #132603
By submitting Content to thephilosophyforum.com for inclusion on the Website, you grant The Philosophy Forum a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify [my emphasis], adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Content.
Agustino December 11, 2017 at 14:39 #132606
By submitting Content to thephilosophyforum.com for inclusion on the Website, you grant The Philosophy Forum a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify [my emphais], adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Content.

Excuse me - modify doesn't mean you get to make up things someone never wrote. That modification is supposed to be for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting MY content (and not that of the moderators).

So how was TimeLine's modification done for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the content of the respective poster? If this is not a flagrant and clear abuse of power and direct violation of the terms of service I don't know what is.
Michael December 11, 2017 at 14:49 #132611
Quoting Agustino
So how was TimeLine's modification done for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the content of the respective poster? If this is not a flagrant and clear abuse of power and direct violation of the terms of service I don't know what is.


As far as I'm aware, TimeLine edited her own post, not someone else's:

Quoting Noble Dust
Nice job editing your post to make it look like I said "fuck off" for no reason.
Agustino December 11, 2017 at 14:52 #132615
Quoting Michael
As far as I'm aware, TimeLine edited her own post, not someone else's:

Do you see Noble Dust's post that reads "PIZZA"? That was edited by TimeLine. And when asked about it, she said she did not moderate him. This is totally unacceptable and a clear violation of the terms of service.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/132474
Jamal December 11, 2017 at 14:54 #132619
Reply to Agustino According to the change log, that was Noble Dust's own edit.
Agustino December 11, 2017 at 14:57 #132623
Reply to jamalrob So when told by Tiff that she shouldn't edit ND's posts, why did TimeLine reply "I'm learning"? @Noble Dust should clarify which of his posts were edited.
Jamal December 11, 2017 at 14:58 #132625
Reply to Agustino I don't know why TimeLine said "I'm learning".
Baden December 11, 2017 at 15:01 #132627
Reply to Agustino

I can confirm "PIZZA" was Noble Dust's edit. You could have simply asked him before creating this discussion.
Baden December 11, 2017 at 15:03 #132630
Anyway with regard to the general point:

By posting on the site you accept that we have full rights to edit and / or delete your posts. That's how moderated forums work.

However, we don't wish to misrepresent anyone, so if you feel any moderating action results in your ideas being misrepresented then you may complain about it and if you have a reasonable case, we'll restore the original (all changes are logged so everything is checkable). Your other option, of course, is to simply delete the content of the moderated post if you feel it no longer represents your views. Suffice to say, it's clearly not in the moderating team's interest or part of its purview to moderate anyone for any other reason except to enforce the site guidelines.
Baden December 11, 2017 at 15:05 #132632
In this case, you don't have a reasonable case. Or any case actually. So, there doesn't really seem to be anything further to say here and I'm closing this discussion.