The programmer in me makes me think there must be some technical limitation in the base software to easily providing an edit capability. Otherwise, TMF would have did it a long time ago giving the constant clamoring for such a feature.

The Fool did eventually offer that function on the paid side, and they also allowed charts (and perhaps pics, I don't know.) I doubt they did a full rewrite of their base code (but again, I don't know) so it seemed to me at the time it was just a way of differentiating between 'the poor slobs' and 'our elegant customers.' ;)

People who wandered in from the paid side had little incentive to stay on the free boards, so in today's vernacular, it was 'premiumizing' before that word became fashionable.

I wish Manlobbi would add some features here as well, but allowing graphics would likely eat far more server space, and I have no idea how he's paying for any of this in the first place. Correcting posts, I don't think, would be such a big deal but (all together now) 'I don't know.'