Continuing the discussion from Refrain from deleting my stock replies:
I'm confused by that. Are you saying a moderator modified your post without leaving a note or sending you a message?
I’ve experienced changes in a few of my posts a while back also.
However, nothing too serious.
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Have had a few deleted too.
Not always the case but it is normal practice to leave a ""mod edit"" or similar if a major change was made.
Have done "minor" typos or personal data without always leaving notice.
Suspect that some edits are done using "system", "impersonate" which leave no discernable trace.
Impersonate AFAIK is the ability of admin to impersonate a user.
Usually I would hope that is limited to testing an account that has difficulty and the user is or should be involved.
Moderators should have the ability to check when "impersonate" has been used.
System is only really available to ADMIN so leaves only a very limited pool of people who can use it.
If system is involved you can usually guess who is behind those actions in most cases.
Some system actions are "automated" for events, but you can usually tell those from other "admin" actions.
Mods should also have action logs available to them in a simplified layout without having to special queries etc. where they can check who has accessed an account and the nature of that access.
Deletions (Hi Larry) are usually at the discretion of a moderator or above.
There are too many reasons that may happen to list.
They are not usual in the case of the first post (except by the author)
But mid stream in a convo it can be beneficial to remove some posts where the tone is getting out of hand to maintain the thread. Notes/notices are not always used in those cases.
The recent random "splitting" of threads is becoming a concern.
There has only been one "impersonate" event logged this year and that was in January, and there was only one logged in 2022
On the only occasion where it was helpful to impersonate me to try and resolve a problem I was asked for permission, which I gave, and the impersonation event is logged
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Sometimes I've had to delete user posts ... unless it was really obvious why (e.g., flames) I always sent an PM to the user explaining the deletion 
Guglielmo
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@PerryBebbington made a request recently that all mods adopt a routine of more user notes.
It would certainly help.
Another suggestion and one I always tried to adopt was asking another moderator to take over if I thought there might be a personal conflict.
The initial premise for this and the other thread on a similar topic has roots in a personal conflict.
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A lot of it boils down to the OPs do not read data already posted or want a quick answer without any effort on there part. How many ways can you tell them what pin the LED is on in the UNO.
I do not change my posts except corrections when posting but never any others. I have changed one or two of mine at the request of a moderator.
It is amazing how many times I type in the OPs question into google and get a lot of valid answers on the first page, they apparently do not know how to use a search engine.
One thing appears to be is certain they do not want to spend time putting there design on paper. I cannot follow the frizzing mainly because I do not know the mechanical layout of the boards they use. Then they qualify it that are like something but different.
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That can happen, I think. An admin can also move a post to another category. He has to edit the post for that, right? Mostly you only notice that it is moved because the admin leaves a comment.
You can click the 🖉 icon at the top of an edited post to see the change. In the case of a category move, the original and new category will be shown in the heading of the dialog. For example:
It is also displayed to me as a notification like this:
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