UPDATE: Wow.. thanks for the tremendous support behind this debate. I promised @MadBitcoins to share in whatever bounty may come. He will be a happy camper.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you may not be a happy camper if you edited a huge post like this before payout. Editing posts can have a huge impact on your reward, behind the scenes it is treated like creating a new post. I hope I am wrong about this but I don't think I am..
Crap. If that's the case, then its an expensive lesson. Damn I didn't know about that.
Well.... whatever I lost its more than I would have had otherwise. Thanks for bringing this up. Need to find this.