Thanks for taking care of the mentioned issues.
We still think editing thread subjects is a crucial feature specially for us as our threads are basically the only channel provided by Epic where we can engage with our audience. Updating subjects such as letting people know there’s an update, a discount, a poll etc. is our only way of raising awareness for those who are browsing the otherwise they wouldn’t know and wouldn’t enter the threads.
Sure there are forums and there are people who try to abuse each other or dodge issues by editing their subjects and posts. But this community is more like Polycount.com and less like Reddit. We’re mostly professionals here who have been around for years, despite a large number of people registering on these boards everyday, most of the people who post on these forums know each other for a long time.
In fact people have been “always” able to edit their post contents since the beginning, just not the thread subjects. But no abuse has ever happened with editing our own post contents because we’re mostly mature about it.