"Even more worth reading" v "worth reading even more"

  1. Aza on Literature, worth reading, predates other events; later wrote an update that's even more worth reading.

  2. Aza on Literature, worth reading, predates other events; later wrote an update that's worth reading even more.

The original, (1) was fine as it was, even if some people might find it clunky. The edited version, (2) is positively damaging because it is syntactically ambiguous. The reason for this is that because of its position, the adverb phrase even more could easily be modifying the verb phrase reading rather than the adjective phrase worth reading. There is no grammatical way of disambiguating it. Of course, if this phrase modifies reading then it implies that it would be of value to read it several times. However, what is clearly intended by the original writer is that it is of even greater benefit to read it (than the previously mentioned posts). This reading is available from (2), but not immediately so, and the reader might have to read it twice to get the intended meaning. After all, the reader might well surmise that if the writer had intended the meaning in (1), they would have chosen that unambiguous phrasing.

There can be no helpful edit to a clearly written and grammatical sentence, unless one feels it is helpful to impose one's own sense of style on someone else. This might be ok if you're an editor, but not if you're just another SE member. De gustibus non est disputandum as they say in English!