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Comment by jsprogrammer | Hacker News Reader

HN moderators absolutely edit user content without notice or attribution.

My comments are partly authored by dang, but you will not be able to tell which words are mine and which are not.

That is false. Coincidentally, we just banned your account for chronic abuse of this site, but seeing this certainly solidifies that decision.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038244 and marked it off-topic.

Can you provide examples? I'd like to know what types of things they edit.

It's quite untrue.

I can think of a single example where we edited a user's comment without them asking us to, and it happened a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012176. As you can see, I posted what we did and why. The alternative would have been to kill the comment outright.

Edit: my conscience reminds me that I've also edited several spelling mistakes over the years. That was mostly when I was filling in for pg.

Given what I've seen of your behavior (and sctb's) on HN, I didn't think my parent would be able to come up with any. I generally push back against apparently baseless accusations (which is what I assumed in this case) by asking for evidence.

Thank you. That's a good approach to take, because if people do provide specific links, we can look into what happened and explain it. Grand accusations about HN moderation are nearly always without specific examples, which I suppose is a kind of evidence in its own right.

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