It isn't all about "changing the record". It's about being able to correct honest errors.

Every other board has them -- when you read those "non-sequiturs" created by responding to a post that no longer reads as it once did you say to yourself, "hmmmmm, someone must have edited afterwards". No big deal. You usually even get the gist of the edit and even the probability of understanding who or what was at "fault" before the edit.

What you DON'T get is the re-current, constant resurrection of a dead horse that could have been corrected in its infancy by a simple edit -- especially on a board full of fault-finders.

And as to "changing the record", again, you usually still get the gist of the arguement once a post is responded to, but even if not, who cares? It's not like we're making law. We're chatting.

I like my posts. I like my archive. But it's a weird level of solipsitic delusion that thinks either are "important". But if they are important (our posts), they are better when corrected.