I want to edit one of my posts to make it less wordy and more focused. I did a login and I had the post on my screen but didn't see anything to click on in order to edit it. Have editing rights changed or do I have something wrong with my browser?

Memebers can edit their posts but only if they do so within 6 hours of posting. After that you would need to contact a moderator to make changes to your post for you.

Such a feature is in place because some people like to make inflammatory posts which cause reactions of the same type - and then they edit their posts after the fact to rewrite history to try and make the others in the thread look bad and themselves look like little angels.