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[Discussion] Should Lemmy allow mods/admins to edit user post data (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This comes up surprisingly often, but this comment chain in the recent AMA prompted me to start a general discussion to maybe put this discussion to rest.

The only other place I'm aware that this has been discussed in detail is this pull request from 2023, which the creator ultimately closed.

What I'm ultimately in favour of, and what actually gets requested (one, two, three), is letting mods edit the metadata around a post. Things like the NSFW toggle, or post tags in 1.0.

But I'm throwing this out to the floor. What, if anything, do you think mods should be able to change about a user's content?

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[–] rikudou 1 points 2 months ago

No, no one but the author should be allowed to edit a post / comment.

And as an admin, I wouldn't even want to - if the post / comment for whatever reason isn't okay, it should be deleted.