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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem is that yes, we read the firs post, but going back to read it again, that is a rare event.
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That is the problem. Editing a post and expecting people to routinely go back and re-read posts they've already read - in case somebody happened to edit one of them - is not a realistic expectation. Especially when the thread may be over a thousand posts long.
Better, IMHO, would be to make editorial changes in a new post at the end of the thread, then go back to the first post and add "This post has been modified, go to <URL pointing to the new post>". On many forums, and this one may not be one of them, you are limited in the length of time you are allowed to go back and modify a previous post. So even a plan to go back and update the first post as I just described can fail. You sometimes see similar evidence of this in forums where the thread author is not familiar with this limited timeframe. You'll see the original first post followed by a bunch of "reserved for future use" posts, but those reserved spaces are never used because the time limit to update them has expired. Reserving space is a nice thought if you expect the information in a thread to continue to grow over time, but it is often thwarted by forum settings.