Synthetic....I did some more digging through all the system settings and found out our moderation options were turned off in admin CP....turned those on and now all managers, admins, mods can edit/delete any shout made by member. still working on if its possible to get them to dump into a forum as like 1 topic per day with all the shouts for the day so they would be searchable....so far not sure...but still digging. At least I found out how to edit/delete them....this topic helped me out in that respect.
