locussolus - Redacting the agora

barrett {March 9, 2005}

That's a serious breach of blog comment etiquette on his part.

I've edited comments on Too Many Chefs but only of the sort when someone (as happened recently) spells "know" as "now" and then follows up with a comment consisting entirely of "now=know".

Correcting typos in one thing, but editing comments for content is bullcrap.

Frolic {March 9, 2005}

Agreed. And Barrett, that wasn't one of my comments you had to correct, was it? Man I'm bad about typos.

barrett {March 9, 2005}

Ha. You expect the king of shoudl's and coudl's and peopel's to rat out the correction? It wasn't you Todd but I shan't say who it was.

paul {March 9, 2005}

I never edit comments unless they're spam, or there's some kind of catastrophic formatting flaw -- I used to add in breaks back when this thing was configured to require tags, for instance.

I don't know if you remember this post, Barrett, but I felt awful about losing that comment, even if it was a lousy joke!

Balasubramani {March 9, 2005}

Barrett It was me!!! Thanks for correcting it.

Paul, do you know if archive.org or any other site captures old content? I am totally curious to see the old and the redacted version. Man, redacting comments (except what Barrett was talking about) is not so good.

language hat {March 10, 2005}

That's appalling. Like barrett, I edit comments only to correct obvious typos that are likely to embarrass the author. I can't even imagine editing my own comments to make someone's response to them seem uncalled-for, and then editing my interlocutor's comments to boot. Nasty, childish stuff.

Haggai {March 10, 2005}

Sorry you had to go through all that nonsense, Paul. That sucks.

Joshua Claybourn {March 10, 2005}

Two things. First, it's abundantly clear that you either didn't read the post or you forgot what I had written. This wasn't snide at all, but a gentle reminder to either actually read it or re-read it before arguing against my stance. I adamently disagree that I offered any personal attacks at all, and I think you overreacted.

Second, I edited out your personal attack about not reading ITA anymore, and retain that right under ITA"s Terms of Use here: http://www.intheagora.com/terms.html

I always note when a comment has been edited to conform with ITA's Terms of Use policy and was sloppy in failing to do so there. I've corrected that mistake and noted a change has been made.

I wasn't attacking you personally and I did not intend to do so. I had a simple disagreement with your argument, and before I responded I wanted to ensure you had read my post/links. It wasn't a snide thing at all, or at least it wasn't intended that way. Frankly, if your skin is that thin and you're unable to engage in civil conversation over the issues and not the person, I'm okay with you not reading ITA anymore. But I do take issue with the mischaracterization that I was attacking you personally.

paul {March 10, 2005}

Josh, I may have overreacted, but it wasn't to your comments in that section now, because you've changed them -- and btw you still haven't noted those changes. If you can't see that this kind of after-the-fact editing is both devious and inappropriate, Terms of Service or not, I don't know what more there is to say.

Joshua Claybourn {March 10, 2005}

Huh? The only thing that has changed or been edited is the snide comment that you won't be reading ITA anymore. I make no apologies about editing that out, but I do apologize for failing to note that I did.

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