I was just wondering what the purpose of being able to edit quotes serves?

if they later edit their post, you can edit it to reflect the new information.

or it can be used as a joke.

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i feel like manual editing is so hard. Why doesn't it change the quote automatically to reflect original's edit?

or, it can be used to keep the original info if they later edit it to hide what they said. like for example, if a user was saying something racist and their comment gets deleted or edited, people looking at the thread later would be able to know what happened.

Well I hate poor grammar and bad spelling so sometimes I will use it to correct thiers but also when they quoted multiple people, it will all go into the text when you quote it, so you can edit other people's part out

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i feel like manual editing is so hard. Why doesn't it change the quote automatically to reflect original's edit?

that's a whole lotta work on programming ngl

To highlight the part of the quote one is responding to. Some people write legit essays as posts.