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I agree that a 1-day edit window is generally enough to prevent this.
Not only rage quitting, but the other major reason for not allowing post editing is that it is used by spammers. Spammers are smarter than you think: they know how to do a web search (or these days, paste a question to ChatGPT), then submit the mostly-accurate response to a thread, and later come back and edit in a spam link to ClassyMumbaiEscorts after the initial period when mods are less likely to notice. Their goal isn't for this forum's users to see the spam links: any link they manage to get into a high-ranked forum is automatically boosted by the PageRank algorithm. They would just as soon you don't see their spam.
I agree that a 1-day edit window is generally enough to prevent this.