I always thought a post took place at its time stamp, not its last edit, in the first place. So I dont understand why that would even need clarification. Mistakes will be made, and we agreed people would have a chance to correct them, thus preventing breakdowns like this in the first place. People make mistakes, and usually we are happy to go and fix them, without argument, as I have done since day one. But sitting here crucifying people, throwing out posts, even parts of them and just taking a "sucks to be you" attitude about it, that is what causes problems. I tend to go over the deep end when im told a simple, easily correctable stat error, that wont even modify the initial post, is grounds for just tossing shit out and leaving not just me, but my partner in this basically at a loss, and then the GM telling me "tough love" make a mistake in the ruling. I apologize but damn! You seem to take peoples feelings too much into account when making a ruling, and its not about the persons feelings, its about their intentions with the post in question, and the rules that matter. If there are hurt feelings there are hurt feelings. Unfortunately though, you will hurt WAY more feelings by making a bad ruling trying to keep everyone happy then you will just telling one person "This is what the rules say, either fix it or void it." Had someone sent me a message any time between 5:30 when I posted that and 11:20 when I went to sleep, Id have happily fixed my post and never said another word about it. This would have never happened.
And your a bit more articulate then I am, and as I said from day one, if you can word something better that I said, by all means do so. lol
Edit: Also, can we get the ruling moved to its own thread, and i'll delete my bullshit off the battle thread and we can clean that up a bit.