# Correcting minor typos within someone else's quote box should be allowed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correcting-minor-typos-within-someone-elses-quote-box-should-be-allowed/925170>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correcting-minor-typos-within-someone-elses-quote-box-should-be-allowed/925170 "2020-11-09T20:19:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correcting-minor-typos-within-someone-elses-quote-box-should-be-allowed/925170/41 "2020-11-11T20:07:03Z")

</div>

For background, the rule originated many years ago when someone changed another poster’s quote in a way that he believed made him look antisemitic. He threatened to bring legal action and was of course immediately bounced. However, we decided to make a general prohibition on changing the contents of a quotebox, outside of normal editing.

Look, no one is going to get banned over an inadvertent or non-malicious change. However, we may issue notes just as a reminder of the general policy.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correcting-minor-typos-within-someone-elses-quote-box-should-be-allowed/925170.md?page=2)