Its been almost a year since someone gave some feedback so let me start with thanking you for taking some time out. Let me tell you that I completely understand where you are coming from when you say some users are posting for the heck of it, I have been witnessing this thing since past 5 years now :frusty:
When we started MP, it was with the sole purpose of empowering and helping students and knowledge seekers and we continue to do so in a better way with each passing day. Its not that big a problem in terms of technology to introduce a functionality which allows only after you upload something, the concern is about a person who has just ventured into the management education sphere... he has nothing to offer but his opinion and MP is the Voice of Management enthusiasts, so we decided to keep the 1 post instead of 1 attachment rule. Another concern is that there are directors, ceos, vice presidents of various companies as members on MP.. they do not really have anything to contribute except for their expertise.. this enforces our ideology.
The edit functionality is a restriction to regular members because we've had SPAM ( porn links , casino, gambling, etc) put into legitimate posts by members. This means that a really good contribution done to the forum which has high viewership volume gets edited by the user himself because such companies pay for these gimmicks. Someone who is not a mp fanatic wouldnt really cross the 100 posts limit and this safeguards us and the community from viewing vulgar content on a reputed educational forum like ours.
I hope the replies were satisfactory but I do wish you come up with more and more suggestions and feedback which can take us to greater heights.
Three Cheers