>Users are allowed to edit their own posts until the time when someone physically replies. Users should only be able to post follow-up comments on their posts [which is the model for other forums], not modify a post that others have read but not responded. Once someone clicks 'send', he/she should not be able to change it. It's almost like able to change an email that you've sent.

This is an interesting point. But, it falls in the users's responsability to adjust accordingly, such as layout adjustment, fixes of typos and related issues but not to change the content integrity of the message. This is also why it has been requested. This is why members wanted to have the ability to do so. If one would completely change the content integrity, before a reply is made, then it is its own responsability.

The Universal Thread has also been created very early in the Internet age and one thing I like about it, is after all those years, it has done things differently than elsewhere. This has always been one of its goals. If it would have been the same as those commonly used engines, after a while, we would have simply purchased/used one of the existing available products.

>One forum member has taken so many liberties with this feature that it makes it difficult just to carry on a dialog. He has often posted 'ABC', I'll start typing a reply to 'ABC', and then the member changes his post to '123' [with a different meaning and spirit] before I click 'send' on mine...making my reply seem incongruous with the modified post.

For that one, I will be happy to hear about it in private so we can trace the log of such activities and contact the member later on with recommandation on proper usage of this option.

>It's also allowed the posting of ugly remarks that lived on the thread just long enough for the receiver to 'see' them.

For that one as well, you may let me know in private.