Why do you get "punished" for editing?

[AmyK]

I'm sorry if this has been asked already, I didn't find a thread that seemed fitting.
My question is: Why do I lose TBT Bells after editing a posting?

Not long ago I earned some Bells and then realized that I forgot a comma. I added it, because the appearance of my postings is important to me and my Bells were deleted right away. I don't mean to cry, I'm not upset or anything at all, it's just that losing all the Bells because of one single punctuation mark doesn't seem very appropriate to me. No offense intended, of course! I'm not a native speaker and because of that it has happened to me quite a few times that I felt the need to correct or change something. Beeing (sort of) punished for doing so gives me the feeling that I'm not encouraged to care about the quality of my postings.

That's why I was wondering... Is there a reason behind it that I don't know? Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

[Farobi]

Because the whole forum is actually Mafia.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Actually, I'm pretty sure you get those Bells back when you make a new post!

 

[Kaiaa]

You don't get punished. When you edit, the Bell Tree has to recalculate how many bells your post is worth. If you add more to your post, you will get a little more bells. If you make it shorter, you may lose a bell. Either way, you get those bells back after you finish editing.

 

[AmyK]

Seriously? Wow, I didn't know that! I didn't even notice...
Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Thanks a bunch for explaining!

Edit: I hope I didn't make others afraid of editing! My observation obviously made me draw a wrong conclusion.

 

[Kanapachi]

I noticed that too, but I noticed I got more bells in my next post. Just post again somewhere else and it will come back. Though it will most likely come back after the edit. It's only 1 bell, tho. ;P

 

[Kit]

Because the whole forum is actually Mafia.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Actually, I'm pretty sure you get those Bells back when you make a new post!

This XD
But yeah, I worried about this for awhile too, glad to know!

 

[sn0wxyuki]

The title itself make me worry a little inside xD now everything is clear =D

 

[Gizmodo]

I'm sure you only lose bells if you double post?

 

[EpicGamer12]

I'm sure you only lose bells if you double post?

You don't lose bells for double posting,

 

[KarlaKGB]

Mods should step it up and make a F A Q