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Originally Posted by chemist View Post
Yeah I found the posts already, please refrain from editing non offensive language, "naive fantasists" isn't hard language. Correcting spelling mistakes ok, I can even live with replacing google with android, but rephrasing whole sentences is not part of your job description - that was off limits. Especially when you just correct spelling, that is oddly strange to people not having an edit note, keep it short though [spelling,language,missing link] like notes.
So please limit your edits to stuff like that, don't rephrase whole sentences for people (ignore that for obviously foreign speakers where you get the context but the phrases are just wrong - still note "rephrased" please). Less is sometimes more.

So as this was about a strange edit matrix and not even about language stuff - please keep in mind that jalyst is just trying to help out. A tad overambitious but I hope we got that sorted.
It is in the context of what other users had posted, calling them "naive fantasists" is pretty clearly insulting language IMHO, there was a tiny bit more, but I can't recall it OTTOMH. Regardless, I only very mildly edited it, the entire meaning & all of the points he was conveying remained, almost all of the original sentence structure remained too.* I also included an explanation, but later he edited it, so that went away. Only the aggressiveness was toned down, so folks were still able to engage in a debate about the points he'd made, as evidenced by subsequent posts.

ZogG's post was edited because he quoted the amended post, I forgot to explain in his post why it was amended, or rather I (mistakenly) assumed it'd be obvious, I didn't touch the body of his post -just the quote. As explained I can't afford to be partaking in this any more, so this is my last post or read of this thread, someone else by all means raise your hand to take-over. If Chemist or Council feels you're better suited, or that it's simply time for a mod cycle (maybe that's a good idea?), then I'm happy to stand down.

Bed-Time/Good Night,
*though it changed a tiny bit more -as he edited it later

Last edited by jalyst; 2015-06-02 at 16:10. Reason: typo, going to damn bed :-(
 

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