[gravedave]

You're offended by someone being pissed off? I think the problem here is you, not him. He didn't direct insults towards anyone, and there's nothing uncivil about using a colloquialism to express personal feelings. If you can't deal with people being human, maybe you should stay out of discussions you don't need to be a part of.

Also, excuse me but "things they would like done different"? All OP asks for is not to have something he posted replaced with something else, and that's how it normally works already, it's not an "idea", it's a status quo, and it's desirable.

[tptacek]

Nobody on HN has a right to "not have something they posted replaced with something else". Dan said it today, and Paul Graham has said it in the past: you don't own submissions to HN. It's for the same reason that posts can't simultaneously be "Ask HN" and a link to a site --- the submitter of a link doesn't get a special privileged comment to go with it.

The slot you fill when you submit a new story to HN is community property. If you're worried about the outlandishly weird case of having your name attached to something that a mod decided was better than your submission when it actually wasn't, submit with a throwaway account.

None of this is news. The site has always worked this way. What's galling is the reason people are bickering about it now: because the moderator is making an effort to be more transparent about it.

[gravedave]

Why do you have to "own" your submissions for them to be left as-is in the first place? Is the only way to go around here with a stick? Just because they reserve the right to change them doesn't mean it should be done at their own leisure, like "fuck OP, here's what the post should REALLY contain".