From this topic, who made these comments? What is this bot?
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Does it matter? It wasn't a bot, but the comments are valid, so I wonder if it matters; it doesn't to me.
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I guess the feature is cool. How it works?
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I suspect the update was made by a moderator. They have the ability to move, delete and delete topic threads. Moderators are also free to comment on threads as regular users, so administrative things such as this don't necessarily show the mod who performed them.
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Yes, I added this. The moderator feature is called "official notice". Very rarely ever had a case for it.
I split the original support topic because it was going way off-topic, then I noticed that the discussion didn't make any sense, like "Macs now run as a GUI layer on top of Linux" and "on top of Darwin, a Linux kernel.". They meant to say UNIX, but the posts already confused a member further below.
I added them in the interest that if someone reads the topic in the future, be it a new or returning member, it doesn't confuse them either. Can't rewrite the history books, after all!
On mine, it says who added it - maybe that's for other mods to know:
Generally, if someone was to start a new topic via an existing topic (by clicking the post's timestamp in top-right → New Topic), it would place "Continuing discussion from...." in the post itself. I guess the context doesn't get quite as lost with a banner.
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The little shield icon identifies the posting as from an "official with authority", regardless of which.
The nature of the function is such that the "official with authority" has no need to identify themselves individually, since it is a role-based action, not an individual-based action.
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