Re: RPoL Etiquette Question
I think I've only been in one game where the GM did any serious monkeying with player posts...and it was all in the name of making some sequences easier to follow. She'd take a series of posts that were, by nature of the scene, short and choppy, and combine them into one long post, then delete all the short ones.
As mentioned, editing posts to answer questions creates the potential problem of players not realizing they've been answered, since editing a post doesn't trigger any message indicators. That means players would have to get in the habit of re-reading old posts to see if they'd gotten answers. Personally, I'd find that burdensome...I prefer my time on RPOL be spent writing new content,not hunting down old posts and reviewing them on a habitual basis. Using the 'Reply' or 'Quote' options gives a solid indicator that new content (your answers to their questions) has been posted, and there's no question of where it is. Or just develop the practice of questions being asked via PMs, where, once again, your responses are readily available, without having to back-track and chase down edited posts. Editing a post doesn't provide any significant savings of time or effort on your part, and increases the demand for effort on your pkayers' part...so why do it?