Allow users to edit

[frater secessus]

I wonder why here and CRVL don't allow editing.

IMO it's misguided and counterproductive.   The mods can see edits and warn/ban people who misuse those edits.  So why do we punish the well-behaved?  I know, not my forum.  But the editing limitation is one of the main reasons I move complex posts to a blog.

A more productive approach would be to allow edits but encourage people to strikethrough text that needs correcting or is no longer valid.

A truly great approach would be a forum (or plugin) that stored revisions like Wikipedia edits, so folks could see exactly what changed and when.  


jc