The post will most probably be deleted. To cover up tracks?

But then, there is a function for this also. Sometimes, people post warez or illegal posts that needs to be removed to prevent the forum admins to be sued for illegal stuff on the forum.

IINM only admins with access to the DB can anyhow edit your post without it showing that it has been edited.


I am seen quite many post from Mod/Staff/Admin that sometime will seems offensive to someone. And very soon, the post is deleted/invisibled. I don't think this is a good way actually. Should be fair to everyone

Tell you what, next time you see such a post, take a screen shot, and if it's being 'covered-up', go create a topic here/PM se7en. Would this solution satisfy you?

Joshua_0718, only Admins can edit without the 'edited by' being seen.  It has been like this since November 2005, one of the first changes I made.  Even then, the original post is retrievable from the database.

Occasionally, we talk to each other in a thread itself, especially on Feedback Desk forum to ensure we are uniform in what we say, so we invisible our posts.  However, I don't remember seeing any offensive posts.  If we want to do that, there are private moderator's forums to do that in

Now, if you see something 'offensive', go ahead and take a screenshot, post it up and we'll do something about it.

Anyone else noticed deleted posts?
I've never noticed them myself

topic title: Just something I fell

reply: you definitely felt wrongly