# edited posts: do you have to tell us?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 19, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511 "2001-04-19T06:28:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@fecal\_nugget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fecal_nugget)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/1 "2001-04-19T06:28:03Z")
Just wondering, when a mod or an admin edits a post, is that little “this post edited by…” stamped automaticly, or is it just somthing you guys do out of courtesy? If the latter, is it always done?
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### Author:  [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/2 "2001-04-19T06:58:21Z")
I believe that the “edited” part shows up automatically. Oftentimes the mods will also include their reasons for editing.
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/3 "2001-04-19T09:05:46Z")
“It’s all
Au-to-mat-ic-ic-ic-ic-ic-ic.”
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### Author:  [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/4 "2001-04-19T09:55:39Z")
on vb script it’s automatic…
haven’t you noticed that if you piss the mods/admins off enough they leave sarcastic comments in their edit trails?
oh - you didn’t know???
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/5 "2001-04-19T11:27:06Z")
It’s almost always there automatically. I think there’s a 1 or 2 minute time span after posting that allows for “unnoticed” editing my OWN posts. If I make a quick edit because of a typo, the line doesn’t appear. Annything longer than those two minutes, and all posts by other people I edit : the line shows up automatically.
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### Author:  [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/6 "2001-04-19T11:35:23Z")
Haven’t you moderators got the hang of this “cabal” thing yet???
You totally forgot about the secret codes that you leave in your mod-trails™…the ones that only the members who know the secret handshake can decode…
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### Author:  [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/7 "2001-04-19T11:44:39Z")
LMAO - I asked Tuba to restrict my posting rights, and I was SOOO trying to give Coldie a smartarse reply…
Joke was on me.
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### Author:  [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/8 "2001-04-19T11:46:58Z")
😕
restrict your posting rights?
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### Author:  [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/9 "2001-04-19T11:47:47Z")
for once in my life I actually wanted to ask you a serious question.
Give me 2 minutes, I think you have my ICQ and you certainly know where chat is - there’s something I wanted to ask you about the Dutch opinion of
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edited-posts-do-you-have-to-tell-us/62511/10 "2001-04-19T12:08:49Z")
I’ll be with waterj2 over there, scratching my head in confusion, OK?