# Limits on Mods' ability to alter posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 29, 2010, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199 "2010-03-29T11:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199/21 "2010-04-06T01:28:11Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Yeah - I think this is a really bad precedent to set up. There are some posters that are really obsessive about their posts to the point of never wanting to admit they were wrong - and I could see them dogging the mods to change posts in lieu of simply saying, “Whoops, here’s what I meant to say.” The thought of admitting an error is as horrifying to them as the thought of walking into my mother’s bridge club without any pants on is to me. Oh, jeez. This wasn’t about “admitting an error” or some “Whoops, here’s what I meant to say” situation. Read my previous responses, please. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199/22 "2010-04-06T01:29:26Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > in a thread in which I was already being called names and verbally abused. Not something I wanted hanging around to provoke further abuse! In your own words “it’s only a message board”\*. Why would you care as long as you eventually did post the full post in a separate message? \*ETA: Ok, paraphrased ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199/23 "2010-04-06T01:31:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Would you be a dear and run and fetch me some tea? 🙂 > > I don’t see anything wrong with the author re-thinking a post within the edit time-frame; sometimes you realize something is a bad idea as soon as you hit “submit.” I think the idea here is that the author is the ONLY person who can re-think a post. I quite agree, but for the record, that’s not what happened in this case. When you’ve seriously garbled some text with a bad cut & paste resulting in accidental nonsense and then you accidentally hit “Submit” instead of “Preview” so you can try to sort things out, that’s not re-thinking, that’s _knowing_ it’s a garbage post. ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199/24 "2010-04-06T01:38:47Z")
> [@srzss05](#): > > In your own words “it’s only a message board”\*. Why would you care as long as you eventually did post the full post in a separate message? > > \*ETA: Ok, paraphrased You’re so bored you just **had** to stick your face in this door, busybody? You might want to research “getting a life”, for you definitely need to learn more about that subject. I never said “it’s only a message board” or anything close. What I said is that specifics matter, and that grand philosophies are misplaced in this context. Good luck finding that life. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199/25 "2010-04-06T01:44:52Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > You’re so bored you just **had** to stick your face in this door, busybody? You might want to research “getting a life”, for you definitely need to learn more about that subject. > > I never said “it’s only a message board” or anything close. What I said is that specifics matter, and that grand philosophies are misplaced in this context. > > Good luck finding that life. **ambushed** , cool it. You’re making this personal and it does not need to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limits-on-mods-ability-to-alter-posts/534199.md?page=1)