⭐ Merited by PowerGlove (2)
Reasonable enough, because after reading the op, I was beginning to wonder if moderators have the power to edit a user's post or comment even till this day, that would have been really really nice 😁 ~ sarcasm
Yep, that's the crux of the issue, I think. If moderators can edit posts, then there is probably no (worthwhile) mystery to solve here.I regret my wording in the OP because it reads like I'm taking the existence of moderator editing for granted.
If someone can confirm that posts being edited by anyone but the author is normal around here (or was normal back in the day) then I'll lock this topic.
These are some of the moderator notes I found in some of the posts:
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[moderator's note: removed flood, reduced size of some text]
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[moderator's note: removed non-English content]
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[moderator's note: replaced NSFW embedded image in quote with URL (the Imgur link)]
And these are some of the older examples:
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Moderator's note: This post was edited by frodocooper to remove a nested quote.
Moderator's note: This post was edited by frodocooper to remove a nested quote.
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Moderator's note: This post was edited by frodocooper to add code tags.
Moderator's note: This post was edited by frodocooper to add code tags.
So, yes. I think that moderators (at least some of them) have always had the ability to edit posts. I do not know if there was always a practice to leave a comment on such cases.