Q: how do we know when redacted things are redacted by you or the question asker
A: i don't change the questions. that's a company policy i have. in the rare case that i do, i'd make it extremely clear in the answer, and why. the only example i can think of right now is when someone told me, in very specific musical detail, a musical idea that they had in a dream. i wanted to answer the question because i wanted to encourage them to use the idea because it is theirs, and i also wanted to block out the actual details of the idea because i didn't want anyone else to steal it from them. i made it very clear, in my answer, that i had done that