Sorry if this is opening up old wounds or issues best left unspoken - but I'm curious about what the issue is with the edit feature?
As far as I've known - through my use of the function - if I make a post and after submitting it I realise within a short space of time* that I made some sort of error (spelling, grammar, a link doesn't work, etc), I can edit it and I don't think it leaves a 'footprint' that I've been back and changed anything.
After that short space of time is over, if I go back at a later time - like a couple of hours later maybe* - and realise that I need to edit, I can still do it, but it leaves a 'footprint' saying I've been there and changed something. That seems fair enough - I wouldn't expect that it would be an issue for a 'footprint' to be left so that others know I've retouched my own post. There used to be a polite convention (in forums past - don't know what the convention is now, but I think I still generally follow it) that if you go back later and amend something in your post, you put a brief message saying what you've done - edited for spelling, fixed a link, or some such. Just as a polite thing to let others know.
I don't see an issue with any of this.
I would think that maybe, after another length of time again*, maybe the edit function would become disabled - so that you couldn't go back a few days or a month later and play around with your old post? I know they did this at a couple of other forums because sometimes people would get a bee in their bonnet and do tantrummy things like delete entire posts they'd done over the previous six/telve months or more, and this created really ridiculously disjointed threads and a lot of silliness. So some forums disabled the edit function after a certain reasonable timeframe to stop these tantrums.
So basically is this how the current board runs? So we're meant to use the preview feature to check our work before we post. If we don't (I'm often guilty of not), then we've got the option of fixing it up in a reasonable time* after it's on the public board. After another reasonable time* we can still fix it, but in fairness to those who may already have read it, a 'footprint' will let others know we've made an amendment. After yet another reasonable time* we can't tamper with our post at all, but if we want to make a change we can always add a new post to the thread saying 'regarding the post I did up above, here's how it should read/here's the fixed link' or some such.
If that's how we're currently running, I don't understand what the issue is?
(This is a sincere question, and not intended to create disruptions or hostilities)
* I've put vague references to timeframes because I have no idea what, if any, the timeframes are. I never thought it was important because any edits I've done have always been for my own grammar/spelling or linking errors and I don't mind admitting when I've stuffed them up!!
If that's the case can we very quickly shut that Pandora's box and pretend I never said anything at all. We don't need any more antagonism here. 
