Because you already knew he had the power to edit comments long before this happened , we already had a builtin precedent for understanding that he could edit comments . We didn ' t need this to happen in order to know this could happen . As for what evidence is in the server , I ' m not just speculating . If it is possible that people could plant damaging evidence in your post without a trace , lawyers would be all over that and nobody would ever be able to be prosecuted again for putting anything on the Internet . It would actually be great news for anybody who ever got in trouble for putting something online because they would now have a defense that says you can ' t prove that this wasn ' t planted . Apologizing after your prank gets attention is obviously necessary to redeem your users ' sense of transparency . Ultimately , TheDonald is a scourge on the site . I can ' t believe he didn ' t snap a long time ago with those fucking retards .