Already did, though instead of the bot, I blocked the entire instance.

How deliciously ironic that this is paywalled.

Right-wing political elites strongly believe in personal freedom and states’ rights. Right-wing regular folks believe strong in personal freedom.

Curiously, this is demonstrably false.

At this point virtually every time one sees somebody call on the government to step in and interfere in something, it’s a right-winger.

As with so many things, they actually are exactly what they claim to oppose - fragile babies who constantly cry for mommy and daddy government to protect them

You… answered your own question.

I think it’s generally a bad idea to eliminate a potentially useful feature because some people might abuse it.

It seems to me that far and away the better choice is to leave the feature in place along with some way to deal with those who do abuse it if and when they do.

And conveniently enough, deletion and bans - both of which are already within an instance owner’s power - are ways to deal with, respectively, threads that have been maliciously edited and those who edit them.