WHOA!!! Did you see that????

[FlyingClayDisk]

I seen that.

Completely unacceptable and I certainly hope we out whoever did it, as they aren't fit to be a mod, anywhere, period IMO.

I want to know who it was...that's f'n brutal...

Well, it's pretty clear to me (now) that something nefarious is going on at ATS.  That someone could do that and not leave a trace is very, very, troubling.  The content of the edit wasn't the end of the world, but it was definitely something I would never advocate and totally not something I even believe in.  Why would I write something like that??? 

The more important takeaway from this is that something like this can happen at all!  That's like the Golden Rule of golden rules...and you just don't break it, not ever.

It's one thing to 'snip' a post if a moderator feels the poster said something in violation of the T&C's but where the rest of the post is relevant.  That's fine.  But it's a whole other matter to add words, to manipulate someone's post, to change the meaning to something other than what the poster said.  WOW!

I am still in shock.

As Nerb said, 'the world still turns' and he's right, it does.  It may be turning without ATS (now), but it still turns. 

I haven't decided what I want to do about this yet.

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Unfortunately, I don’t think you can ‘forget the topic’, as that topic has by FAR been the most controversial, ...

My point was that the topic (of the thread) wasn't the point, but rather that the edited post was the point.  I didn't want to have the topic (of the thread) distract from what had happened, and distract this conversation.