This is a public forum and every comment here is everyone's business.

Malicious edits like that after you've been replied to destroy the context and flow of a thread for everyone else, it's a form of vandalism.

Oh I can't realize I overreacted and correct it before it triggers more people? Instead, I gotta let it sit out there and get harassed in perpetuity?

This wasn't vandalism. I don't owe you anything. Get a life.