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First, the rules:

• You can always edit you own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Now, the justification:

Comments are second class citizen, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor correction (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on it's own is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forever, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.

First, the rules:

• You can always edit your own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except for diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Now, the justification:

Comments are second class citizens, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor corrections (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on its own, is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forever, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.

First, the rules:

• You can always edit you own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Now, the justification:

Comments are second class citizen, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor correction (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on it's own is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forver, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.

First, the rules:

• You can always edit you own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Now, the justification:

Comments are second class citizen, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor correction (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on it's own is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forever, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.

• You can always edit you own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Comments are second class citizen, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor correction (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on it's own is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forver, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.

First, the rules:

• You can always edit you own comments for a period of 5 minutes.
• You cannot edit (to be clear, nobody can, except diamond mods) either your own comments after 5 minute or comments by others (any time), unlike a post.

Now, the justification:

Comments are second class citizen, they are there to serve temporary purposes, like

• asking for clarification
• proposing minor correction (to avoid edit conflicts) etc.

A comment, on it's own is not supposed to hold any valuable information. If it is worthy of keeping forver, better to edit the post and add the information in the post itself. Otherwise, the comment can be deleted.