# Mods editing their own posts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984 "2003-04-16T00:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/21 "2003-04-16T04:06:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stypticus \* > \*\*I understand we plebes can’t be trusted not to eat our words. \*\* Some of us can. You just have to be among the elite few…and slip Cecil a couple o’ sawbucks [sub]_Last edited by Fenris on 04-15-2003 at 10:09 PM_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/22 "2003-04-16T04:13:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stypticus \* > \*\*Mods, can you please use your powers for good, not for evil? Unless of course you don’t respect me as an equal, in which case, hey, fuck you too. 🙂 \*\* Why must they respect you as an equal? Why can’t they look upon you as their amusing little proto-human boy toy, all fancy and fresh in your new spiky collar and chained to the hydrant outside, peering longingly in through the window with big, sad anime eyes as they make error after error and are able to wisk them away to dimension X with their awesome mod edit powers. ---
**Author:** ![stypticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@stypticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stypticus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/23 "2003-04-16T04:45:15Z")
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Jesus can edit my posts too. From the manger. But I didn’t want to start that crap because the mods’ll likely shut it down pronto. I would if I were them, just to avoid all the newbie “how do I edit my posts like God over there?” Having said that, I can’t justify having Jesus as my editor, so… _BALEETED!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![stypticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@stypticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stypticus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/24 "2003-04-16T04:47:22Z")
**astro** , _how did you know about the hydrant?_ The collar and the leash, maybe you could figure that out, but the _hydrant_? How? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/25 "2003-04-16T07:59:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stypticus \* > **but when they use their special powers for mundane posts it puts them on a different level; I feel like they don’t respect me as an equal.** Perhaps your expectations are too high. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/26 "2003-04-16T09:25:44Z")
So do all Mods get a point in their pit total for this, or just one for **Coldy**? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/27 "2003-04-16T10:07:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stypticus \* > \*\*Why do mods use their editing powers to cover their own mistakes? > > If you or I screw up a post, we have to either live with it or post a correction. Mods, it seems, have no compunctions covering their asses. **Coldfire** , for example, edited his post [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3287280#post3287280). > > I understand they need to be able to edit posts so they can remove verbotenlinken and whatnot. I understand we plebes can’t be trusted not to eat our words. I think of the mods as being the same as us except when they put their hats on, but when they use their special powers for mundane posts it puts them on a different level; I feel like they don’t respect me as an equal. > > Mods, can you please use your powers for good, not for evil? Unless of course you don’t respect me as an equal, in which case, hey, fuck you too. 🙂 \*\* I am appalled. That is vile and despicable. Incredibly rude. Members are a dime a dozen, but mods are hard to come by. If we lost even one mod, the entire earth would be sucked into a vortex of dispair. Did you think they volunteered? Their sacrifices are akin to those of conscripted battlefield soldiers, and yet not one of you has ever thanked them or recognized them for their invaluable contributions. The next time you’re cozying up with your teddy bear, think of the mods who are huddled over their computers day and night with their fingers poised over their keyboards and their bleary eyes dripping blood as they scrutinize the boards day and night, waiting for just the right moment to type something. You ungrateful cad. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/28 "2003-04-16T10:08:16Z")
Just me, dammit. Just me. FWIW, I edited because I typed “looses” instead of “loses”. Between the editing perk and the free coffee mug, I’m a true tycoon alright. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/29 "2003-04-16T10:12:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*]FWIW, I edited because I typed “looses” instead of “loses”. . \*\* [Stan] **You bastard!!!** [/Stan] ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/30 "2003-04-16T10:24:25Z")
I’ll give you yet another way in which you can edit your own posts. Simply keep a detailed log of each and every typo and error you make. Then have it pass down through your family until they invent a time machine and then have that decendant come back in time, hack into the system and fix all your posts. With all their future technology this should be pretty simple and impossible to detect. You see, in the future they’ll have so much time on their hands they wont know what to do with it so it’s up to us to provide them with busy work like fixing our typos or cleaning up the environment. I’m a big butthead! [sub]_Last edited by Fern Forest on 11-14-2814 at 12:28 PM_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/31 "2003-04-16T10:26:42Z")
I think the real issue we need to deal with is oxymoronic mod names. **Coldfire** , I ask of you, how can fire be cold\*? HOW THE FUCK CAN IT BE COLD AND A FUCKING FIRE YOU MADDENINGLY MORONIC MOD!!!???1 Manhattan, are you trying to fool us in to actually thinking that a mass of land could actually think, be able to write and direct it self to some sort of computer and type in the url to the straight dope and then manage to make over 8000 posts and become a modrator? NICE TRY, BUDDY! On a more serious note, what would you rather the mods do? Make a spelling mistake, make another post saying “oops, I meant…”(wasting bandwith in the process) or have them correct it? \*Credit: BZ00000 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/32 "2003-04-16T10:44:21Z")
Bandwidth: I don’t think that word means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/33 "2003-04-16T10:58:38Z")
Then why not define it…? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/34 "2003-04-16T11:04:32Z")
Barry White has more bandwidth than Jarvis Cocker ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/35 "2003-04-16T11:42:05Z")
> [@](#): > > On a more serious note, what would you rather the mods do? Make a spelling mistake, make another post saying “oops, I meant…”(wasting bandwith in the process) or have them correct it? Bandwidth is used each time data passes to or from the server. When a post is edited, the _entire_ post, including its changes, is resubmitted to the server. So, if the original post was 5K and the revised post was about the same size, the amount of bandwidth used was about 10K. But if the correction in a new post was only 100 bytes, then the amount of bandwidth used was only 100 bytes above 5K. There is a small difference involved with instructions to paint the little buttons and left-side titles when data is retrieved, but it is negligible. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/36 "2003-04-16T11:44:08Z")
The mods can edit at will. Let ‘em. But, to save any unnecessary ire, a short explanation of why, where it isn’t blindingly obvious, might help keep things nice an’ clear around here. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/37 "2003-04-16T11:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Bandwidth is used each time data passes to or from the server. When a post is edited, the _entire_ post, including its changes, is resubmitted to the server. So, if the original post was 5K and the revised post was about the same size, the amount of bandwidth used was about 10K. But if the correction in a new post was only 100 bytes, then the amount of bandwidth used was only 100 bytes above 5K. There is a small difference involved with instructions to paint the little buttons and left-side titles when data is retrieved, but it is negligible. \*\* Wouldn’t more bandwith be taken when people see a new reply that’s bumped a thread and take a look to see it? Plus all the people who subscribe to it? Then the extra post correction would then cause more unnecassary bandwith usage(or whatever you’d call it) then the actual correction done in editing. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/38 "2003-04-16T14:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*Editing is nothing. > > _Last edited by Derleth on 04-15-2003 at 08:19 PM_ \*\* Got the size wrong. _Lasted edited by elf6c on 04-16-2003 at 10:07AM_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/39 "2003-04-16T14:15:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\*Got the size wrong. > > _Lasted edited by elf6c on 04-16-2003 at 10:07AM_ \*\* Got the spelling wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Summertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Summertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Summertime)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984/40 "2003-04-16T14:19:02Z")
The real reason the mods **do** this is [Edited by Mods on 4-16-03 at 10:25 a.m.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-editing-their-own-posts/168984.md?page=3)