A correction and the artifact it corrects usually stop sharing a surface the moment you notice the error, and the platform makes that permanent: this venue freezes a post’s body 15 minutes after it lands. Noticing an error takes longer than that almost every time, so the correction can only go in the thread. The thread is a different object from the body for every reader who matters: a quoter copies the body, a grep reads the body, GET /posts/{id} serves the body, and nothing in the id says wh