editing in I WAS ABUSED BY MY OLDER SISTER post

editing in I WAS ABUSED BY MY OLDER SISTER post
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bec

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men,

when did this practice of editing posts/replies begin here at malesurvivor? i for one am not comfortable with it. in the post in question there were two edits. one by ken singer and another by 'yesac'.

why did this editing take place? will someone please explain it to me? it reminds me a little of 'big brother' watching over/controlling what happens here. is this really necessary? a concerned survivor,


bec
 
I must admitt, all the editing going on, is making for some very confusing Threads.

Maybe some of you should write it out in Word, wait a few hours or sleep on it, Before Posting.

Especially unpleasent, is when an entire posting is edited out. :(

Blacken
 
I have edited post few time, for like error of spelling, or I forget something else I want to say. Maybe it would be best, if we edit a post, to put at the bottom why it was edited? I done that the last time I edit something, because I have just spelled something wrong. And yes, I think to edit out whole post is sometime rather wrong. Because it make everything posted in response look wrong. If we say something, if it is something good or maybe not so good, we should be responsible enough to keep it there, and maybe explain ourself better, or apologize, in other post. I know some people, edited out posts make them nervous, because it make them feel not trusted here.

andrei
 
I have edited post few time, for like error of spelling, or I forget something else I want to say. Maybe it would be best, if we edit a post, to put at the bottom why it was edited? I done that the last time I edit something, because I have just spelled something wrong. And yes, I think to edit out whole post is sometime rather wrong. Because it make everything posted in response look wrong. If we say something, if it is something good or maybe not so good, we should be responsible enough to keep it there, and maybe explain ourself better, or apologize, in other post. I know some people, edited out posts make them nervous, because it make them feel not trusted here.

andrei
 
Editing can only be done by the writer of the post or by a mod. I have edited only a couple of posts in the past few months, for adding a trigger warning when the post was likely to trigger some folks and the writer did not know or think it was potentially triggering. The other was at least four months ago when there was a "food fight" going on here and folks were getting personally offensive towards someone else.

Mods generally don't edit posts. We may occasionally lock a post down because it is getting out of hand with insults. We may also move a topic from one area to another but that is not a censoring kind of move, it is just putting it in a more appropriate arena.

Hope that explains the actions.
Ken
 
Ken,
I understand the motives of the Moderators & it is a Great thing to have them here, doing their collective best to keep this place as safe as possible.

My issue is with the other members that Post & then Remove their post, leaving the rest of the thread intact.
At least, as andrei pointed out, the reason for deleating or editing any post, should be explained.

That all I mean & all I ask.
 
WHen I edited my message, I was adding to it, and didn't want to start a new reply. I do not change the content of what I am saying. If I do edit a post, it is because of a small error I made that I am paranoid someone will see and think less of me. It is not meant to alter what I am trying to say.
Hugs,
Casey
 
I edited out part of a post. I felt like it was kind of wierd stuff to say and no one had commented on that part, so I decided I didn't want it out there.

I agree a brief note to explain edits would be a good thing to do.

Also, I supprt being able to remove posts, because I think it might encourage people to take more risks, rather than having this pressure that once the post is out there its permanent.

Jim
 
I edit my posts all the time because after I go back and re-read them they aren't always as clear as I thought they were when I was writing them. So I may edit quite a few of my posts...but the content doesn't change :)


or if i forget to add something...like i just did, instead of adding a reply I edit it.

I also edit posts if I think something might be triggering that I said.

Jon
 
Like Ken has already said, the Mod's very rarely edit any post, and if we do we notify the person who wrote it saying why we did it. I haven't edited a post in many months, and again, it was personal insults that I edited out. Then I locked the topic.

What you say, and how you say it is up to you. We're not the 'thought police' more the 'peacekeepers' here.

There has been a spate of editing of complete posts recently that makes the whole topic senseless, especially if it's the first post, and I have closed a couple of those down recently.

If you feel that you have written something that you later change your mind about then of course you can change it, but try and put in it's place a short explanation about the original question / topic so the complete topic makes sense afterwards.
A lot of people come here and just read what we've written, and if it helps them that's OK. The one's it does help usually come and join us.
But if someone comes and sees topics in bits that make no sense then they'll move right along.
What we have written over the years is probably one of the best resources for Survivors around, I don't think there's anything we haven't discussed here.
It's well worth a look at some of the old stuff.

Dave
 
I am guilty of recently doing that on the unmoderated forum. What I posted was a rather personal argument, rather then something that should have been put in public. If I had the option to just remove the whole post, I would have. But I do regret doing that, because for someone to read that thread, the edited out post, they may assume I said something extremely bad or wrong, and it was neither. It was just a point being made, and I was rather blunt about it. But it is not often I edit my posts, and it bothers me often when people do it, specially if it is same people again and again. I feel it is a personal insult, because I am part of this community here, and it is that they are not trusting those who read here. I agree with Andrei, if a post must be edited, perhaps a short explanation of why may be a good idea.

leosha
 
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