I don't think what you did was awful, especially since you went to the effort of explaining exactly what was changed and why. However, I also think there shoul

I don't think what you did was awful, especially since you went to the effort of explaining exactly what was changed and why. However, I also think there should be space for discourse about the mechanics of the action; however academic that discussion might end up being. Personally, I think a suggestion to the OP encouraging them to edit the post themself might have been a less controversial method of achieving the same aim.