Interestingly today, I was posting an answer, and I added some polite wordage to the bottom of what was a fairly dry post to offer the [clearly new] user some e

Interestingly today, I was posting an answer, and I added some polite wordage to the bottom of what was a fairly dry post to offer the [clearly new] user some encouragement. I'm also a committer/developer on the project in question. I was edited several times by non-contributors removing my desire to be polite. What bothers me is that these words are being attributed to me without my usual polite demeanor. StackOverflow was pretty awesome at one point in time, but I'm not providing free answers on the site anymore.