All you old farts on here listen to what the kids use....IE would not be on any teenagers compter but Firefox, Chrome, Safari

I'm an old fart and IE is not on mine either. Being an old fart though, I can spell computer.

I use Firefox ( Mozilla ). I really like it. Though the Firefox on my computer is acting a little odd, I will have to contact them about that. It is not a big problem and generally it works fine.

Just because you use spell-checker

I use Chrome. I didn't like it at first and wanted to go back to Firefox but I stuck with it and now I wouldn't use anything else.

When were the rules updated, and where were we made aware of this?

It's sad that this rule needed to be made. I wonder how many complaints prompted it?

December 27th and yes SOME people were notified of the change.

I must have missed the memo.

OR perhaps you were deemed to be a good boy and didn't need the 'warning'

Site rule 17.
When responding to a post in the forum do not alter or modify another member's quotes in such a way as to misrepresent or change the context of the original post. Any member found doing this will be banned from the community.

I read this to say that quotes can still be modified as long as the original context is not changed or misrepresented. I think el_richo's post is allowed according to my interpretation, though obviously Mods may have a different opinion.

I'll admit to regularly changing modifying quotes in an attempt at humour, and no-one's ever complained to me and I've never been warned by a Mod for it.

I find it irritating, distracting and generally unfunny. But then maybe I never rread any that you had changed

Being an old fart you presumably were friends with Mr Babbage......

The bastard stole my idea over a pint.

Mostly they were correcting spelling errors without making an issue of it to the person quoted.

There were the odd few that were an attempt at wit though. I think editing quotes is only funny when used sparingly and subtly.

Well well well, that's a new one to me.

Anyway, i've corrected it for them