Please don't put non-trivial updates via editing a node (nor encourage others to do so). We have tons of tools for making it easier for people to notice which new nodes have been posted recently. We don't have (and never will have) good tools to make it easy for people to notice recent significant updates to nodes that they have already read and would like to keep up-to-date on the progress of that thread (not only because separating significant updates from trivial updates is a rather hard problem to do well).

Non-trivial updates are best signaled by the creation of a new node (a new reply), especially when that new node actually contains the update.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: simple newb question (updates) by tye
in thread simple newb question by filesurfer

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