The only way that I can see stopping this menace is not only Spez relinquish his position , but code changes must be created so that any post that is modified is shown as such . Since Spez decided to show that the functionality of changing posts without any evidence of the modification exists , that feature must be programmatically disabled in some manner . Unfortunately , application level code changes will not work , since there is the ability to change a user ' s post at the database level . Unless there is some form of private key hosted on the user ' s system that generates a signature of the text and the public key is used to verify the signature created by the private key or some like mechanism I fear that the integrity of the site will remain damaged by Spez ' s actions .