One thing that is on our list is to enhance this a bit to:
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Likes must be received on (n) different days, where (n) is 1/3 the number, e.g. 20 likes across 7 different days
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Likes must be from (n) different users, where (n) is 1/4 the number, e.g. 20 likes from 5 different users.
@neil can you make sure this gets done before 1.01 release?
The idea is to give users agency over their posts and allow them to control and revise them. But I am open to shortening the default a bit in the name of safety, so I’ll cut this to 6 months. Done!
It’s going to be very, very hard to get leader (and thus SEO follow) in an exploitative way with the Like requirement changes I described above. Remember you also lose leader status if you don’t keep this behavior up for every last 100 day period!
Edits-per-day is already rate limited to prevent ragequitting – someone who gets angry and decides to edit all their posts to 
Anyway, just changing the global edit interval is easy enough and I think that’s your best fix at the moment @geek.
But there’s nothing stopping a user from drip-feeding changes one per day, these kinds of slow, methodical “attacks” from within are very hard to stop.. if you want to attack a system, and you are the world’s most patient person, that’s a tough combo to beat.