1 minute??

It doesn't matter if nothing has been posted after it.
then it can be edited any time really.

If it is not the last post then editing could make follow on posts confusing.

For instance if I was praising Pascal,
and follow on posts disagreed,
so I decided to edit out my praise, giving Reason: Bad grammar.

This isn't going to help with the previously mentioned problems of chronology or denial.

Of course I would like to be able to edit my posts, but I wouldn't like other posts to be changing, so I put up with the limitations.
and try to take the time to think and proof read before posting.

Mostly I don't see a problem with asking the mods to do things, in the few cases where there might be some good reason to make changes, rather than a later correctional post.


But I think there are some specific requirements not applicable to most ordinary posts, like the physics monkey thread, or some other poster led threads although not all random threads.
Is it possible to make a moderator for just a single thread perhaps in these cases?