*sneaks in and waves at everybody*
Hi Ellen, looong time no see btw, 
Just to explain, without giving my personal opinion:
If it concerned ‘nomal editing’ (typos, etc.) there wouldn’t have been a problem.
For whatever reason, members started to ‘clean out’ their posts. (like total deletion), leaving threads unreadable and utterly useless.
You can understand this lowers the value of any messageboard incredibly and why the ‘management’ was so upset about it. It would leave the board like a shop without goods to sell……..