You can always just let us edit ourselves...
Thanks for the fix.
You CAN edit for yourself within the alloted time window, which is intentionally brief. After that, only mods can edit posts... this is in order to maintain some semblance of integrity to the threads... otherwise, folks would be editing their own posts (for a variety of reasons) indefinitely, rendering the progressive/conversational tone of threads null and void. Anyone who edits themselves to remove a rule violation BEFORE a mod finds it DOES NOT HAVE THE VIOLATION LOGGED IN THEIR UID FILE (caps for empasis to all readers, I'm not yelling).