So the question is, is updating the original post really a problem for email users?
In general: yes
just summarized the information that other people had sent to the channel.
That would be the one exception then.
This was discussed at length before. The arguments for “edit”:
- being able to change spelling errors
- being able to remove embarrassing information
- “feel ownership” of posts and being able to change your mind
Note: all changes are documented in the history function of the forum anyway, all email users have copies of the original post
Arguments against “edit”:
- you should think BEFORE you post
- this is how mailing lists work (expectation of existing users who where promised the forum wouldn’t interfere with the way how they interface)
- if you change anything other than spelling errors the answers of others might make less sense
- it provokes excessive quoting (to preemptively counteract edits after the fact)
Note that many of the most security and privacy focused people use email as it does not require JavaScript and Cookies to interact with the forum.
When you post to the forum a 10 minute timer starts. After those 10 minutes your post gets sent to the email users. Any edit you did before that timeout will be seen in the email. Any edit after the email was sent won’t.
As a common courtesy and as long as it doesn’t make you feel “unsafe” it would be greatly appreciated to post new or changed information as a reply instead of editing the original post.