Oh sparks, I should have made it clearer on the "courtesy" I was speaking of
Of course you (or another member) wouldn't be in this same exact boat of editing or deleting things because of the time limit, and I'm sure Foxy will answer for that in due time.
I meant if you were caught up in a mess, stories floating around, things which appeared to have taken place, etc etc.......I for one would want to know who, what, when, how, and why from YOU before I got carried away. For no other reason than I feel I *know you* as much as you can know somebody you've never met. I know you have a good heart (as I believe of Foxy) and would want to attempt in every possible way to understand your side of things.
That is all I meant about courtesy.
There are good reasons Mods need the ability to delete and edit things from times gone by. We have done those things for others in stalking situations, and many other cases I don't need to list, situations where "cleaning the closet" could help or at the very least, not make things worse for them in real life.
Also, there are MANY times where someone comes on here frantic to get their dog back because it's missing or something, posts all their personal information (phone and address) and either realizes it was foolish and ASKS us to take it off, or we notice it and do it on our own. That post could have been made at midnight and none of us were on to get to it at that moment, but we do it ASAP.
Yes, the privilege/power *appears* to have been abused in this instance. It really isn't feasible to remove that power due to the reasons I've listed above though, and to my knowledge, you can't separate that power and exclude the ability to alter your own........we are on the honor system and THAT is what Foxy needs to enlighten us about.