"two posts of mine"
They may be your posts, haven't checked the ToS, but I'm pretty sure HN claim full editorial power and so can edit them how they like. The only problem I'd have is with that not been clear - when they edit they should add a "edited by X from an original by Y" type statement.
First of all, there are no 'terms of service', there are just the guidelines and they do not state anything to that effect.
I agree with your suggestion that editors should leave a unique mark to make sure that people realize that the original content is no longer what it was when the poster put it there. Accountability flows both ways.
As long as editing is limited to clarifying titles and fixing links I'm ok with it, but if there ever would be a single documented case of a comment being edited to make it read something that wasn't there before then I'm quite sure that terms-of-service notwithstanding HN would become a different site overnight.
I'm not in the habit of checking up whether what I wrote before is still there, maybe I should be ?
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"two posts of mine" They may be your posts, haven't checked the ToS, but I'm pretty sure HN claim full editorial power and so can edit them how they like. The only problem I'd have is with that not been clear - when they edit they should add a "edited by X from an original by Y" type statement.
First of all, there are no 'terms of service', there are just the guidelines and they do not state anything to that effect.
I agree with your suggestion that editors should leave a unique mark to make sure that people realize that the original content is no longer what it was when the poster put it there. Accountability flows both ways.
As long as editing is limited to clarifying titles and fixing links I'm ok with it, but if there ever would be a single documented case of a comment being edited to make it read something that wasn't there before then I'm quite sure that terms-of-service notwithstanding HN would become a different site overnight.
I'm not in the habit of checking up whether what I wrote before is still there, maybe I should be ?