# Feature

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/c/contribute/feature/2.md?page=181

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## [Semi-private Discourse forum?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semi-private-discourse-forum/85641)

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**Author:** [@Denis\_Heraud](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Denis_Heraud)\
**Replies:** 20\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/semi-private-discourse-forum/85641 "2018-05-17T16:54:41Z")

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We have a private forum at the moment where only users that have registered on our website can then log in (through SSO) to access the forum. However, we’d like to make the forum semi-private. I would like for anyone (p…

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## [Unlist option in Topic Timer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlist-option-in-topic-timer/87676)

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**Author:** [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlist-option-in-topic-timer/87676 "2018-05-17T05:38:53Z")

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My ideal workflow for closing topics is: Lock topic Add post explaining why it was locked Leave it listed so users see why it was locked instead of it mysteriously disappearing Otherwise it may look like we’re just cl…

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## [Influencer Leaderboards](https://meta.discourse.org/t/influencer-leaderboards/87599)

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**Author:** [@balibebas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/balibebas)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/influencer-leaderboards/87599 "2018-05-17T05:01:39Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Help us build the new Dashboard: As requested by @sam, a little color on what an influencer Dashboard metric might look like as I see it. Please feel free to share your thoughts. And my ap…

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## [Feature request: filter by staged on admin user list](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-filter-by-staged-on-admin-user-list/69577)

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**Author:** [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-filter-by-staged-on-admin-user-list/69577 "2018-05-16T23:53:41Z")

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I’m learning about staged users and am finding it not easy to identify staged users on my site so I can keep an eye on them and manage them. Would it be possible to have a filter on the menu to display only staged users,…

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## [Add more metrics to Discourse Prometheus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589)

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**Author:** [@ssvenn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ssvenn)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-more-metrics-to-discourse-prometheus/87589 "2018-05-16T04:02:42Z")

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I would love to see some of these user activity metrics exposed in the Discourse Prometheus as well! Simple counters for total posts, visits, searches, users, topics and a gauge for currently active users should be enou…

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## [Emoji for each user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-for-each-user/87389)

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**Author:** [@Biscuit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Biscuit)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-for-each-user/87389 "2018-05-15T06:10:33Z")

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One of our forum members suggested generating emoji for each user automatically. For example: :Username: or maybe :@Username: to display a users pic as an emoji. Not all pics work well as emoji, but stil…

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## [Does editing title or post trigger msg?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-editing-title-or-post-trigger-msg/87484)

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**Author:** [@cori\_online](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cori_online)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-editing-title-or-post-trigger-msg/87484 "2018-05-14T22:21:54Z")

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Hi, If mods edit a user’s post subject line or the actual post (like strip out a link that’s not allowed, etc,) does that initiate a msg notifying that user that their content has been edited? Thanks!

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## [Enable user to Generate API key](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-user-to-generate-api-key/87362)

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**Author:** [@Yoginth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yoginth)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-user-to-generate-api-key/87362 "2018-05-14T19:56:09Z")

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Enable user to Generate API key, so they can use it to develop their own application!

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## [About page with metric charts similar to the new admin dashboard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-page-with-metric-charts-similar-to-the-new-admin-dashboard/87403)

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**Author:** [@dnsmichi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dnsmichi)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 14, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-page-with-metric-charts-similar-to-the-new-admin-dashboard/87403 "2018-05-14T16:29:36Z")

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I see you’re putting a lot of effort into the shiny admin dashboard which is great :heart:. One thing which was mentioned in a discussion recently purged away from alpha feedback - why not make these graphs and metrics a…

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## [Meta annotation sidepost for bots?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-annotation-sidepost-for-bots/87326)

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**Author:** [@mofosyne](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mofosyne)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 13, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-annotation-sidepost-for-bots/87326 "2018-05-13T23:16:27Z")

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I noticed that there are some bots in reddit whose focus is on improving other post via automatically clarifying abbreviations etc.. The problem with such post in discourse, is that it would be too verbose. Reddit has t…

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## [Forum stats and admin dashboard should be admin only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-stats-and-admin-dashboard-should-be-admin-only/87296)

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**Author:** [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-stats-and-admin-dashboard-should-be-admin-only/87296 "2018-05-12T00:04:36Z")

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Not sure why anyone would have difficulty understanding the stats tbh. Also, not sure why mods are able to see them anyway - forum statistics should be admin-only.

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## [What about adding tags in the top menu?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-adding-tags-in-the-top-menu/25501)

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**Author:** [@Matthieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Matthieu)\
**Replies:** 45\
**Last updated:** [May 11, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-adding-tags-in-the-top-menu/25501 "2018-05-11T03:18:39Z")

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Did you think about adding the ability to include a link to /tags or /tags/tag\_name as an item in the top menu ?

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## [Image pattern option for category backgrounds](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-pattern-option-for-category-backgrounds/87213)

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**Author:** [@terraboss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/terraboss)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-pattern-option-for-category-backgrounds/87213 "2018-05-10T23:21:30Z")

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Hey friends, since I saw this post from Angus yesterday, I felt inspired by the idea to round up some categories by decent stylish background images. But most of you might know the main issue: To support large screen r…

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## [Send unhandled flag emails to all staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-unhandled-flag-emails-to-all-staff/39510)

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**Author:** [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-unhandled-flag-emails-to-all-staff/39510 "2018-05-10T19:24:45Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Does anyone get notified when something is flagged?: I would like to suggest that the email regarding unhandled flags should go to the moderators group, thus emailing all moderators and a…

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## [Feature Request: Automatically Lock Post Editing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-automatically-lock-post-editing/87114)

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**Author:** [@jacobswan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacobswan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-automatically-lock-post-editing/87114 "2018-05-09T22:43:38Z")

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The original release thread: Locking Posts (preventing users from undoing staff edits) I’ve searched through meta.discourse to see if there was such a requested mentioned, but I could not find it. Just like automaticall…

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## [Some sort of "Replies to" equivalent on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-sort-of-replies-to-equivalent-on-mobile/87029)

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**Author:** [@Ellibereth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ellibereth)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-sort-of-replies-to-equivalent-on-mobile/87029 "2018-05-09T04:42:39Z")

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On mobile when you tap the the avatar and arrow at the upper right of a post to read the post someone is replying to - there’s no easy way (that I can find) to navigate to the post you were originally at - I’ve had to ju…

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## [Additional option for user's default home page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-option-for-users-default-home-page/86968)

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**Author:** [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-option-for-users-default-home-page/86968 "2018-05-08T05:41:31Z")

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Cobtinuing the discussion from Remember the selected view / tab on homepage - #21 by sam I wonder if we could not have Remember last as an additional option for the recently introduced user preference Default Home Page?…

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## [Can we make it more obvious that a topic is solved?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-it-more-obvious-that-a-topic-is-solved/58378)

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**Author:** [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-it-more-obvious-that-a-topic-is-solved/58378 "2018-04-16T16:40:47Z")

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For very long instances of Post # 1 in a topic, it’s not immediately obvious it’s already been solved without scrolling down. As a result it would be nice if the notification could be moved to above the content in the po…

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## [Custom notification tips per category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-notification-tips-per-category/86785)

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**Author:** [@adopilot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/adopilot)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-notification-tips-per-category/86785 "2018-05-04T19:57:29Z")

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Apologies if this was discussed before. It will be great if we could set ours custom notification tips in topics creator category specific. As we can pin topics per category / subcategory inmagine that we can pin tips …

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## [Add support for theme settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-support-for-theme-settings/78103)

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**Author:** [@Osama](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Osama)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-support-for-theme-settings/78103 "2018-05-04T13:38:16Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Discourse Tab Bar for Mobile: One feature that Discourse doesn’t currently offer is the ability for themes to have some sort of settings or variables that would work similar to how site/pl…

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## [Localised inline date/time](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localised-inline-date-time/24149)

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**Author:** [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)\
**Replies:** 30\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/localised-inline-date-time/24149 "2018-05-04T06:15:30Z")

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Timezones suck, especially when they make you miss meetings. It would be incredibly useful to be able to add a date to a post, and have it automagically change into the timezone of the person reading it (if there’s data…

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## [Email Notification recipients unclear when PM is sent to multiple users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934)

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**Author:** [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Replies:** 38\
**Last updated:** [May 4, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934 "2018-05-04T00:23:46Z")

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When a private message is received in Discourse it looks like this: Note the list of users. When the private message notification is received by Email - it is not clear if there are other recipients. I would sugg…

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## [Image upload max size and further resizing regression issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-max-size-and-further-resizing-regression-issue/60755)

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**Author:** [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)\
**Replies:** 16\
**Last updated:** [May 3, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-max-size-and-further-resizing-regression-issue/60755 "2018-05-03T00:02:54Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Resize images after uploading: Not sure if this has been discussed already and whether it has been considered a bug or an expected behavior. The issue is, my setup won’t accept images up…

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## [Discourse Feature Questions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-feature-questions/86648)

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**Author:** [@spectrum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spectrum)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-feature-questions/86648 "2018-05-02T23:47:42Z")

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Hi, I had a couple questions about Discourse features, to see if they are possible… Is it possible to have a limited timeframe that users can comment on each thread created in Discourse? For example, if we create a …

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## [Ability to see user agent](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-see-user-agent/86590)

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**Author:** [@Yoginth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yoginth)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-see-user-agent/86590 "2018-05-02T23:43:20Z")

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Ability to see user agent of the Browser that user is using, it must only visible to Admins, it will help us to support more for our users.

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## [Extracting the Time to respond ratio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extracting-the-time-to-respond-ratio/84373)

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**Author:** [@KHfaga](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KHfaga)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extracting-the-time-to-respond-ratio/84373 "2018-05-02T10:42:03Z")

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Hello Everyone, I have a question regarding Data extraction from discourse, how to extract the Time To Respond ratio for each user? I need to extract it in a table for all users, I looked up the Data explorer queries bu…

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## [Add alias support to emoji picker](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-alias-support-to-emoji-picker/86503)

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**Author:** [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 1, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-alias-support-to-emoji-picker/86503 "2018-05-01T21:40:22Z")

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Twitter have alias support in the Emoji picker, it means that: VS, what we have now: It would be nice to have support for aliases on Discourse. Note we should probably also add this as a fallback for : completio…

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## [Is a points based system on the way?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-a-points-based-system-on-the-way/86453)

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**Author:** [@Simon\_Oliver](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Simon_Oliver)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-a-points-based-system-on-the-way/86453 "2018-04-30T20:42:16Z")

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Is there any plan to develop a rewards type system that will automatically assign points to members based on their contributions?

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## [Category wise SMEs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-wise-smes/85708)

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**Author:** [@Raj\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-wise-smes/85708 "2018-04-30T03:42:07Z")

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Hi Team, I am running this forum for our company’s internal purpose. I want to assign an SME (Subject matter expert) to each category created in my Forum. So that whenever any user creates a topic/post under any catego…

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## [Polls can't be altered (even by Moderators) after 5 minutes?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-cant-be-altered-even-by-moderators-after-5-minutes/13393)

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**Author:** [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Replies:** 38\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-cant-be-altered-even-by-moderators-after-5-minutes/13393 "2018-04-30T02:18:51Z")

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Is this a setting somewhere? As I think moderators/staff should be able to alter a poll regardless of the time limit. What if a regular user creates a poll that is “unfitting” or one of the options isn’t permitted by fo…

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