I don't use notifications, and so I came across the above-cited post (14 months after it was posted) and this thread by just reading through some of the posts.. which sometimes does result in skimming rather than reading in detail.
I do sometimes send smerits even when I don't completely understand the posts (or agree with the contents)... yet I might consider the post to potentially contribute towards someone else's thinking or that maybe it appears that interesting ideas were contained therein.
My being known for walls of text might be another dilemma.. in which there cannot be any assurances regarding future walls of text - and so long as no one deletes them, at this time, I don't have any plans to delete or edit any of them... if I do edit any of my posts, then usually such editing would be within the first hour or so of the post, and once in a while I will go back and edit something within 24 hours. I usually do not edit my posts beyond further out than 24 hours (except in OP posts of the very few threads that I created) .. . but if I were to edit any of my posts, especially greater than 24 hours, then I would likely put some kind of an "edit" note in the post.
I got notification to this comment and I decided to ship in my few line of contributions to this discussion, as how I perceived JayJuanGee as a member of the forum and how he has utilise every tool to properly analyse any topics that he fines interesting and making sure to include every vital informations and data's which makes his comments to occupy several lines, with detailed high quality contributions that any basic member of the forum could easily pick a point or two from his comment.
Anyway in other to stay on the topic, I see no need to even discuss or even try to analyse JJ because to me he is simply one of the best forum members, who make alot of contributions to both newbies and engaging in intellectual discussion with other experienced forum members effortlessly.
On the issue of post editing, I think every forum member have the right to edit his or her posts anytime you fine something wrong with the content and need to edit, good enough the forum feature make every edits timing display to public to take note of the changes.