# Number bubble says mod "edited" (or pencil thingy) my post but **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 21, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114 "2021-01-21T16:51:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/1 "2021-01-21T16:51:41Z")
So the number bubble thing says @What_Exit edited one of my threads. But when I click on it, all I get is my OP posted twice side by side. And I don’t see any changes made. Anybody know what’s going on here? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/2 "2021-01-21T16:57:12Z")
Probably just letting you know I added a tag. Was it a Café Thread? Please link to the thread for a better answer. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/3 "2021-01-21T17:03:38Z")
Yeah, it was a Café thread. Thanks for clearing that up. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/4 "2021-01-22T02:11:48Z")
If you look closely - really, _really_ closely - you’ll see that the edited copy has a tag while your original has no tag. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/5 "2021-01-22T02:24:53Z")
I’ve noticed about 20-25% of Café threads are being self-tagged now. Probably only about 10% don’t fit a tag. It takes me only a little time each day to tag the rest. Hopefully it is somewhat helpful to people. But it does leave my fingerprint on 70% of the Café threads. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/6 "2021-01-22T02:30:34Z")
But I do remember clicking cafe society in the drop down box. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/7 "2021-01-22T02:34:06Z")
I found the thread I think we’re talking about. > [@If it smells good and tastes good, it's good. Agree?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-it-smells-good-and-tastes-good-its-good-agree/931111): > > I’ve got some homemade spaghetti sauce in the fridge. Been sitting in there for a week. I gave it a taste test. Still tastes good. But I’m a little paranoid about making a full meal of it as it does have ground beef and pork in it. You did have it in Café, What I did was add the tag [food-drink-cooking](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/food-drink-cooking) When you click on the tag, it will show you a subset of currently 220 threads tagged as food-drink-cooking. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/8 "2021-01-22T23:46:30Z")
Do you have a list of preferred tags? I hesitated to self-tag because I didn’t want to potentially create any extra work for you. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/9 "2021-01-23T00:46:33Z")
Here are all of the tags: [Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags) tv-shows x 229 food-drink-cooking x 220 celebrity-death x 177 music x 172 movies x 157 netflix x 115 books-writing x 84 middle-earth x 63 disney-hulu x 40 commercials x 27 cartoons x 25 amazon-prime x 23 comedian-jokes x 18 reality-or-game-show x 17 comic-books-manga x 16 comic-strips x 16 hbomax x 16 arts-crafts x 9 apple x 2 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-bubble-says-mod-edited-or-pencil-thingy-my-post-but/931114/10 "2021-01-23T00:56:13Z")
Ah, that’s great! Will be self-tagging more Cafe threads in the future.