... 60 minutes is just insane.

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There are plenty of forums that impose 10-15 minute edit restrictions, so 60 seems pretty generous to me.

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There are a bevy of forums that impose INF minute edit restrictions. In light of that, 60 might as well be 0.

Thanks for the answer, Tom. I understand the desire to keep people from "revising" their own posts to remove poorly thought out comments.

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It is desirable to ensure that poorly thought out comments remain on the site forever, or at least until the next crash? Or perhaps the administrators derive some sort of pleasure from imposing yet another restriction on a forum that has a virtual monopoly over its subject area?

I can think of a reason to be able to edit posts, at least in one forum. If someone is selling a list of items, it is helpful to be able to edit that post as things ar sold rather then make a new post saying what is still available and what not. Keeps things nice and orderly :beige:

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The solution is to create one thread for each one item you are selling. I foresee that this will soon be banned, however.

Another idea now that images may be embedded into posts is to create all of your posts as remotely-hosted transparent GIFs. Then you can edit them whenever you like.

I foresee transparent GIFs being banned for this purpose.