Toddlers and babies are the concern . Why do you have to be such a dick ? Are your infants and young children all fucking Albert Einstein ? <| sep |> You don ' t argue that this one time this one guy did it you argue that they have both the ability and desire to make these changes . You could say the same about any website operator that accepts comments . By itself , this is a fishing expedition but any sign the post may have changed in any way and you ' re basically past fishing expedition . Well , a sign the post may have changed would constitute indicia of wrongdoing specific to the content in question , which I said might change the inquiry . Before this epic fuck up , a random poster claiming their post was changed in order to obtain discovery might be insufficient it probably isn ' t anymore . I doubt a court would find this episode changes the inquiry one way or the other for the reasons both I and the poster of the original comment said , but if such discovery were permitted I suspect it would be limited to admin logs , which could be produced with relative ease . That aside , if discovery revealed the the comment in post had not been edited , the person claiming their post had changed would have subjected themselves to sanctions , which is a pretty good deterrent itself . I just really don ' t see this having a farranging effect other than whatever business consequences might follow .