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I have seen post titles edited without notice (one of mine has been and there is no notice of it [can you tell which one?]). I believe I have seen comments edi

I have seen post titles edited without notice (one of mine has been and there is no notice of it [can you tell which one?]). I believe I have seen comments edited (but I don't keep records).

jsprogrammer 10y ago
Who downmods this? Seriously?
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  No, really, you can't reply?
  - jsprogrammer 10y ago
    Hello. If you push the downward pointing triangle to the left <------- Could you please reply to this post so that I may see who you are? Edit: Someone is trolling the bottom comments of a 4th page article? lel And at least two people couldn't even be assed to look for what text HN attributes to my account that I did not actually post.
- hartpuff 10y ago
  Someone/people really proving the points being made about downvoting and the seriousness of this forum. FWIW, I upvoted because I think the downvotes are abusive (particularly the one you object to here). Did not seem to make any difference though.
- dang 10y ago
  Would you please stop breaking the HN guidelines? They explicitly ask you not to go on about downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - jsprogrammer 10y ago
    I assume you are talking about this (if not, please me more explicit): >Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. >Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted. My replies do not break these guidelines.
dang 10y ago
We edit story titles all the time. We do not edit comments unless the author asks us to.
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  You don't see a contradiction between, "[we] absolutely [will] not [modify text users post]" and, "we edit story titles all the time"? The bottom line is that HN claims I said something I did not and there is no way for anyone to know which text I said and which text you (or another user with editing abilities) said.
  - dang 10y ago
    I thought you were talking about comments (and text posts, like Ask HNs). Story titles don't belong to the user who submits the story.

I have seen post titles edited without notice (one of mine has been and there is no notice of it [can you tell which one?]). I believe I have seen comments edited (but I don't keep records).

jsprogrammer 10y ago

Who downmods this? Seriously?

jsprogrammer 10y ago
No, really, you can't reply?
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  Hello. If you push the downward pointing triangle to the left <------- Could you please reply to this post so that I may see who you are? Edit: Someone is trolling the bottom comments of a 4th page article? lel And at least two people couldn't even be assed to look for what text HN attributes to my account that I did not actually post.
hartpuff 10y ago
Someone/people really proving the points being made about downvoting and the seriousness of this forum. FWIW, I upvoted because I think the downvotes are abusive (particularly the one you object to here). Did not seem to make any difference though.
dang 10y ago
Would you please stop breaking the HN guidelines? They explicitly ask you not to go on about downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  I assume you are talking about this (if not, please me more explicit): >Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. >Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted. My replies do not break these guidelines.

dang 10y ago

We edit story titles all the time. We do not edit comments unless the author asks us to.

jsprogrammer 10y ago
You don't see a contradiction between, "[we] absolutely [will] not [modify text users post]" and, "we edit story titles all the time"? The bottom line is that HN claims I said something I did not and there is no way for anyone to know which text I said and which text you (or another user with editing abilities) said.
- dang 10y ago
  I thought you were talking about comments (and text posts, like Ask HNs). Story titles don't belong to the user who submits the story.