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I hope this is the right place (or at least not the wrong one) to post this question. If it is indeed the wrong one, apologies.

One of my posts was edited by a member of the admin group. I would like to contact the admin who edited it, but I don't know how to find out who it was. When clicking on "admin group" for the board, a number of admins are shown. Which one do I contact?

The post in question is in:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 98&start=0

Thanks in advance

George

While I was not the admin who edited your post, there must have been a very good reason why it was done.

Hello Rkawakami,

thanks for replying, but is it possible to contact the admin who edited it? I am rather new to the forum and admit that I didn't notice that the original post was in the windows 7 board (I had made a google search and this topic came up there).

Having seen that none of the original poster's questions had been replied to ("how to control charging levels in windows 7 without Power Manager" and "what happens to them when power manager is uninstalled") AND the original poster having given up hope on an answer to them, I restated the first question in respect not to just windows 7 but also xp and vista. Would that be really "hijacking"?

Further to that, I partly answered the other question of the original poster.

Considering a lot of posts being hijacked (completely) and this being tolerated by Moderators, I thought I could be a little bit more well mannered and at least state the fact that the original question has been stated a bit differently, different but still the same.

For what I know, my answer to the second question has also been deleted. Even if the rest of my post cannot be tolerated, the edit could have been restricted to that part and left the relevant one intact for the benefit of all.

It seems as if my post has only been read upto the point where it has been cut off, ignoring the rest as well as the original one...

George

Without knowing exactly what you posted, I can't say why your post was changed. Yes, there have been cases where the thread has been "hijacked" to a certain extent and then allowed to stand but in most cases, it will either be split off into their own threads or the post removed if it violates the rules of the forum.

giorgosvam wrote:Considering a lot of posts being hijacked (completely) and this being tolerated by Moderators <snipped> It seems as if my post has only been read upto the point where it has been cut off, ignoring the rest as well as the original one...

For a change, I wasn't the admin in question either, however the "but, mommy, you let him do it" defense doesn't get very far here. And it just irritates me to no end. We're busy; we miss things. When we see something, we fix it. We try to fix it right and do so most of the time. Sometimes we make mistakes.

Of course, now I'm dying to see what was actually edited out. It's a shame that phpBB doesn't preserve things.

JaneL wrote:
For a change, I wasn't the admin in question either, however the "but, mommy, you let him do it" defense doesn't get very far here. And it just irritates me to no end. We're busy; we miss things. When we see something, we fix it. We try to fix it right and do so most of the time. Sometimes we make mistakes.

Of course, now I'm dying to see what was actually edited out. It's a shame that phpBB doesn't preserve things.

Allow me to disagree whether that was my line of defense, it wasn't. Please read again my post above. In the deleted post, I restated the same, first, question of the original poster, but in a more general way (refering not only to windows 7 but also vista and xp). I also replied to his second question. Now I would like to ask: 1. whether that is considered hijacking and 2. whether my "generalisation" of the first question means that my valid reply to the second ought to be deleted (since it was exactly half the answer to the OP second question).

If it was done by mistake, no problem, I make more than my share of them (indeed, I already have since I didn't notice that the original post was in the windows 7 board). If not, I cannot but accept it, whether I agree with it or not.

Anyway, I think this is getting way out of proportion. Speaking directly to the admin may help clear any misunderstanding, whether it be on my side or hers/his. Is there a way of contacting the admin who made the edit? S/He may be the only one (apart from myself) who knows what I did indeed post.

giorgosvam wrote:If it was done by mistake, no problem

It was no mistake. You tried to hijack a Win 7 thread.

Cheers,

Bill B.

bill bolton wrote: It was no mistake. You tried to hijack a Win 7 thread.

Cheers,

Bill B.

Hello Bill,

thank you. I assume it was you who edited it.

May I ask if you remember what I had posted? And if so, whether it indeed warranted that all of the post (including the answer to one of the OP's questions) be deleted?

George

If you have a beef with a mod or an admin, it would be way better to try and sort it out via PM, not on the forum!

RealBlackStuff wrote:If you have a beef with a mod or an admin, it would be way better to try and sort it out via PM, not on the forum!

Next.........................

The admins on this forum, for better or for worse, don't really go back on their decisions, and rarely discuss them. Everyone will be honestly better off with you just starting off a new thread.

Save the really long/important posts you think might end up controversial on your local machine, or crosspost them to another forum / a blog...