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Wow. That's the first time I've ever even heard of moderators editing a post, other than at the request of the poster or to correct a broken link or something like that.

Are you sure it was a moderator action and that your account was not compromised somehow ?

edit: it looks like you're right and people have been messing with your submissions.

That sucks.

Prediction: this post will be 'dead' soon.

edit2: I looked at the original submission, I think the 'tablet' moniker is a bit heavy, but if it allows you to log in to facebook it certainly is more than just a photo frame.

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> Wow. That's the first time I've ever even heard of moderators editing a post, other than at the request of the poster or to correct a broken link or something like that.

Happens quite often actually. Fixing blog spam for example, but also to kill editorializing in the title. One argument is that the title and submission should represent all of us, whereas comments can be used to voice your opinion on the matter if you want to.

> Prediction: this post will be 'dead' soon.

I hope so. I've flagged it.

Why have you flagged it? This seems like worthwhile discussion to have, at least once.

Because for some silly reason meta discussion is taboo on HN. You can talk about any other site here but you can not talk about HN.

Personally I think that meta discussion should simply have a place out-of-band, instead of being suppressed.

Which of course you are supposed to ask for on the 'feature request' page where it will then be ignored...

HN is a great community but it does have its flaws (like any community), the weird thing is that there is this tendency to pretend that it is perfect by discouraging discussion of the flaws. I'm not sure I understand the background of this, but since the benefits seem to outweigh the costs I take it in stride.

Actually, I'm not too opposed to meta-discussion on HN. It does serve a purpose and I have argued in favour of it in the past.

But I do see opponents point that meta-discussion tends to get very repeating after a while and even self-serving. The latter is the reason I flagged this submission. It isn't so much the feature request, or the "when should submissions be changed" discussion, but the simple "boohoo somebody changed MY submission boohoo THEY SHOULDN'T!"

I've seen many post headlines or sources changed afterwards. In most cases the decisions were right. Two false edits on one day are a little too much.

That's why I want to at least have the ability to delete posts that were formerly mine.

There is a time limit on that. Maybe it should be set up in such a way that if someone edits your submission you get to yank it if you disagree with the edit. Right now if the edit happens past the point where you can delete words can be put into your mouth that you never would have spoken and that is just wrong.

it should be set up in such a way that if someone edits your submission you get to yank it if you disagree with the edit.

Outstanding idea.

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