Owen O'Malley wrote:
I'm in favor of leaving edits enabled and just use social engineering.

Why have you changed your mind? Why do you think social engineering will work now? It has not in the past. Despite regular complaints over the years, edits have proceeded at a steady pace:

  http://tinyurl.com/489jyw

Also, what reasonable uses are there for comment editing? Social engineering would be appropriate if there were common cases where editing a comment is defensible, but, in a project where it must be possible to track issues through mailing lists, I think there's simply no place for comment editing.

Doug

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