Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26339491-20161115005058/@comment-26339491-20161118154640

I took the liberty to reopen the thread temporarily to answer this last question. TheO0032 wrote: My question is why do you only have 24 hours to edit a reply on discussion?

We want to avoid people editing their posts later so that the conversation no longer makes sense. There's no editing history yet, so you couldn't just look up what was originally said. We also want to avoid users insulting others and then hiding their original message to avoid punishment.

As far as we've seen, there's no real need to edit your post past 24 hours. You might want to fix a typo or add something right after you posted, but past that, there's rarely a real reason why you need to edit your post. The conversations are opinion-based, so there's no need to update information later as there is with articles, and if you change your mind in the course of a debate, it makes more sense to make a new post.

For votes, where you might want to change your vote later, we'll have a different feature in Discussions eventually that will let you do that.

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