I totally understand why you did this, we had to sadly implement the same kind of policy at Ars, too many people trying to go back and edit out history.

It's too bad for some threads though. Like for my translite sale threads, they get pretty huge, no one wants to read 25 pages to figure out what's going on, so I was always good about editing the opening post to reflect the current status of order with a dated message.

I know lots! Facebook isn't a forum, it's a shared personal stream. Pinside is a community, when you delete your posts you rip the fabric of that. We don't allow users to delete their posts at Ars either for that reason, it's very disruptive. You're posting to a public space, not a private tool (Facebook etc) that you then choose to share or not as you see fit.

You no longer "own" it once it's been posted publicly. You're broadcasting to the entire internet, this isn't "private" in any sense of the word. That's part of what being a member of a public community entails.

If that makes you uncomfortable then don't post.

I post here under my real name, I'm very conscious that everything I say is public. I've probably said a few things I regret. So it goes.

I just want editing for practical reasons, so I can update long running sale threads with the most current info for instance. I'm very sympathetic to the abuse that Robin is trying to address.

Agreed! Pinside is the latter, not the former.

This isn't a chat room, it's a forum, with logged history. And it's not a limited audience, it's a public forum, with a lot of lurkers not just the members you see posting, that's indexed by search engines like Google. So treat it as such.

So MFing true.