I have written over 375,000 words. I have been edited by people liked me or hated me all the same, so I am not so worried about what people might think should I make a typo–as I am worried about anyone editing my text, and risk changing my intent, my meaning.
Granted, sometimes I forgot the category, and I am trying to be better. Surly one can be added.
Thanks for you consideration,
Brenda
As far as I know, no one but you or a McNeel moderator can edit your posts… The moderator would only do it if the post somehow violated the code of conduct for this forum. And they would probably just delete the entire post in that case, not edit it.
One exception is a few users (myself included) can edit a post title and category. I periodically change the category of posts, mostly when it’s clearly a Grasshopper question and the category is undefined.
Do you have a specific instance of someone editing your post’s content?
I’m another user with the right to edit topic titles and categories.
I fix typos and if I think the topic title should be changed I usually post in the topic or message the OP for permission…
I also can change the title and category. I occasionally change the category, almost always when the question is about Grasshopper. When I change the category I add a post saying the category was changed.
Sometimes, I see my posts being moved in another category, or a misspelled word in the title corrected by moderators (English is not my native language). Great experience so for.
So you are saying someone actually edited the body of your post to change SolidWords to SolidWorks (or vice-versa)?
Wasn’t me but if I had the allowance to edit posts it I would definitely change it.
AI would also change it.
So, it seems.
I am not saying that it wasn’t done well; it’s a slippery slope, though.
I would be very highly against this practice. There should be no allowance for non-McNeel people to edit anyone else’s post content in any way, even if it’s just to correct spelling. Users are uniquely responsible for their own post content, period. Spelling and grammar mistakes are basically irrelevant if the meaning is clear. If it’s not, others can still ask the OP to clarify or correct.
I am very surprised that your post was edited Brenda, this is the first time I have heard of such an occurrence.
Giving this a second thought I agree it’s a touchy subject.
My OCD brain isn’t good at ignoring typos and I think spell check should be improved.
I changed a title of one of your (Brenda’s) post once solely for making it easier to track.
I do correct typos in titles for the same reason.
Other than that, content is the poster’s own responsibility.
I also correct misspellings in titles so they can be found easier, and updated categories etc.
I only change post bodies when they contain code samples that are badly formatted
e.g
public MyClass
{
int my Property { get; set; }
}
I would update to
public MyClass
{
int my Property { get; set; }
}
But all in the name of helping the post get solved
Nope, someone corrected the body of my text.
can you link to the original post? we may be able see the edit history in the admin tools
i have seen edits from moderators not showing up, which were not done by me but quoting my name with the change of it. either this or something spooky otherwise, though that was several years ago i still can remember that well.
i believe some moderators have the power to simply change anything without reference. deleting entire posts when they did not like it being one of them.
so are we finally going to find the double spy mole that works for solidworks? 
If we delete a post, typically the moderator will pm you directly and let you know why, unless its an egregious violation. (porn, violence, racism,etc) that stuff gets nuked immediately with no comment and will very likely get you banned from the forum.
Anything that we feel is a grey area we tend to have a chat with the OP and let them know what the issue was. Personally, I will always reach out if I moderate anything past spelling, as misspellings can screw up searching for a topic.
I may periodically deliberately misspell stuff for ironic/satirical purposes, and my preference is for no intervention in the body of any posts, deliberate or accidental misspellings or not… (assuming no misconduct problem). If it makes search harder to find that post, so be it, that’s life. Search isn’t all that good anyway.
For me post content is sacrosanct.
I tend to use a lot of hot-mic editing, anyway, why should this forum send me a notification–that I have edited my own post?
