So, I’ve migrated to discourse but there is a new challenge. Text and contents of some posts are out of place, like: the Hyperlink method and Quotes are not showing properly. Is there a way that as an Admin, I can edit some posts without showing edit history (pencil) for that posts?

[image] Shin: Is there a way that as an Admin, I can edit some posts without showing edit history (pencil) for that posts? After editing the post, when viewing a given revision in the edit history, you can “Hide revision” to hide it from the history. This also hides the pencil if it’s the onl…

If you haven’t gone live you can fix the script. If you have gone live then you might still write a script that will make the updates without the edit or include a note that explains why it was edited (so you can undo it if your script is wrong)

[image] Jay Pfaffman: If you haven’t gone live you can fix the script. I’ve not gone live yet, still getting used to discourse before going live. I will try to fix via script. [image] Renato Atilio: After editing the post, when viewing a given revision in the edit history, you can “Hide …

Admin Editing user posts without showing the edit mark

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) July 26, 2024, 7:05pm 2

AFAIK no. But you can choose to not show editing history to users. OP will get a notice still, I reckon.

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Admin Editing user posts without showing the edit mark

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