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[Discussion] Should Lemmy allow mods/admins to edit user post data (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This comes up surprisingly often, but this comment chain in the recent AMA prompted me to start a general discussion to maybe put this discussion to rest.

The only other place I'm aware that this has been discussed in detail is this pull request from 2023, which the creator ultimately closed.

What I'm ultimately in favour of, and what actually gets requested (one, two, three), is letting mods edit the metadata around a post. Things like the NSFW toggle, or post tags in 1.0.

But I'm throwing this out to the floor. What, if anything, do you think mods should be able to change about a user's content?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And we should take it a step further and have posts be digitally signed by the author. That way we can detect any db-level tampering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This is a great idea