Woodie there is no word romance or drama that can justify this action, this is a total cheating on the signature and the quality we tend to maintain in this forum, don't pant this situation as less than plagiarism offenses, if you have a working schedule and engage in some other things, there is no way you can make a quality contribution to a discussion here in the forum so the best thing to do at that point in time is engage in those other things and try not to become double attending that makes you act in such a way.
You can actually do your day job and still work on the forum. It all depends on how you plan your time like I said earlier. I don't have issues with post edits because I do edit mine too but where I can't seem to wrap my head was the line where the op said he'd edit those post almost or close to when it's the cut off time. If you know that at a particular time, your post count is supposed to be counted, why not round it off way before hand?
I have read the explanation given by Saint-loup and it still doesn't sit well with me. He may have his reasons for doing what he did he feels that it's okay but I just have a question for him though;
If he has been here for 8 years, has that being his style of posting or it's just a recent occurrence?