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Originally Posted by Stephen
The general mechanism of the quoted text is why I disagree, you should not be able to edit posts beyond a reasonable time period (~12 hours). If you need something edited you can just ask a moderator. I feel comfortable presuming these sort of circumstances are isolated.
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About every single post I've made in code gallery has needed to be edited, and I'm sure this is true of most other people's as well.
In general, it is useful whenever you want to make a point in the first post of the thread so people will see it.
I think the circumstance of someone changing their post maliciously would be much more isolated than one of someone changing their post in order to benefit readers.