Hi, I came across an option to use silent editing for post titles and also body of posts that is only visible to staff. Currently, when anyone, poster or moderator, makes an edit it can be seen in the revision history. However, there may be times when staff want to edit something, for example rem…

[image] Rubi: We are currently on Discourse 3.3.0 Just a gentle nudge to update and benefit from all the new features as well as crucial security updates. :slight_smile: [image] Rubi: However, there may be times when staff want to edit something, for example remove personally identifiabl…

[image] NateDhaliwal: the staff member can hide the edit in the edit popup. That’s the problem, we do not see that. Could it be a theme-related issue? Or a setting to configure the options in the editor?

Would we find it here? Admin > Settings > Posting hide_post_revision_controls – should be disabled so staff can use this enable_post_edit_tracking – must be enabled to track and show/hide edit history

[image] JammyDodger: Just a gentle nudge to update and benefit from all the new features as well as crucial security updates Yes, I know :slightly_smiling_face: I spoke to one of the site admins about this. Regarding hiding revisions: now I understand this, thanks. [image] Rubi: hide_…

[image] Rubi: Are you saying these do not exist or that I have misunderstood their purpose? I don’t recognise them. :thinking: I can’t find them in an admin search, and a meta search for either only brings up your post. If you give me some extra context about where you see them it might fire …

I think it is my misunderstanding of the context from here: [image] Ability to hide or delete old revisions on selected posts Feature Continuing the discussion from Allow feature to hide edit history for mods : While this currently exists as a site setting, it…

@JammyDodger I’ve marked your post as the solution since it answered my main question as to whether or not a silent edit feature exists. I will encourage the other mods to use the :information_source: field to add editing reasons. Thanks again for all the helpful responses.

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) June 6, 2025, 4:22am 2

I don’t think so. IIRC that globally affects all edits. Instead, the staff member can hide the edit in the edit popup.

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