But, if you forgot or don't know, there are several sites that scrape the forum and keep all this history, even if the posts are edited.
Right, but a lot of them didn't scrape them or wasn't around at the time. I can't remember when each scraping website was operational, but
ninjastic.space as an example doesn't have the original post, and only scraped the edited version.
The problem is when moderation is based on the common sense of each moderator. And in turn, there are no criteria for reporting posts. Each one does it based on their common sense and their notion of what is of value or not.
There's definitely criteria/guidelines that most moderators are aware of, but there is a element of discretion. theymos has made it quite clear in the past that he doesn't believe in set in stone rules, because they're easier to exploit or abuse, which I'd agree. Unfortunately, a trade off of that is sometimes we have situations like this where some moderators view things differently.
However, if anything this can encourage moderators to have a little talk about how to deal with these things in the future, and establish some sort of general view on it.
I made a few reports, but still about 15% of the reports were not accepted. And I am aware that everything I reported was clearly spam or something that was not in the right place. How is this possible? I don't know...
If you or anyone else needs some advise on reports, I'll try to help as much as possible so feel free to give me a message. I personally love to see more reporters actively reporting.