[DocJohn]

After having 4+ months of experience with this and further discussion amongst the Community Team here, we've once again decided to place a time limit on members editing their own posts, a behavior that is consistent with the vast majority of online communities.

We have changed this from "unlimited" time to 12 hours because a few members have been abusing this privilege to 'change history' in controversial threads, or threads where things have gone in a direction the member didn't care for. It was creating very difficult and time consuming moderation situations where a post was reported for an issue, but then changed or removed by the original poster to make it look like there was no issue. Or a moderator would go in and remove something inconsistent with our community guidelines, only to find the poster goes back and changes it back later on. And so on. The Community Team can't do their job here if the floor keeps moving under their feet.

When some members abuse the privilege, we have to take action to stop threads from becoming nonsensical or inconsistent with the community guidelines. An online thread is a conversation or a discussion that occurs at a specific time in a specific place.

Specific posts can still be edited outside of 12 hours by a moderator or administrator if you so request via PM.

As always, thank you for your continuing support,
John