Currently it seems there is only one universal option (which seems to be set to one day by default). If there isn’t a way to change editing times can I suggest the following please: Allow an option to change editing time for TL3 users. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.) Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. (We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc) Perhaps by TL level too (so if in Category A + TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc).

One day is not the default, the default is 60 or 90 days as I recall.

On mine it says this as the default: [imagem] Edit: Ah sorry - I thought it was seconds lol, that’s 60 days. Are edited posts always bumped in the Latest List? If so I can just expand that to 4 months as a stop gap solution…

Pretty sure edits to posts only bump if the edit is to the last post in a topic.

[imagem] elijah: Pretty sure edits to posts only bump if the edit is to the last post in a topic. I thought it bumped them for all posts - not doing so could be an issue for spam on a large/busy forum..

Since 2013 the only way to bump is to reply or edit last post. Note that last post can be first post if post count = 1.

Is there any other way to keep track of edits Jeff? If it’s not already, I’m fairly sure this will be exploited by spammers soon - it’s one of the reasons why on other forum software I had the edit limit to 1 day. Perhaps there can be a queue system for edits longer than a day old? Or edit-time-allowed based on Trust Level?

There has been a time limit on allowed edits since day 1 of the project, default 180 days, change your site setting to taste.

One setting just isn’t adequate for a busy modern forum tbh. What do you think of expanding the editing options? Perhaps something like: Allow an option to change editing time based on Trust Level. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.) Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc - these are all things where the first post would need to be edited over a much longer period of time. Maybe combine the two too, so if in Category Dev Profiles AND TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc.

What is the use case? Describe the real world problem, with actual live examples, this would solve. I do not mean hypotheticals, I mean actual real world situations you have run into that would necessitate this.

Ok I’ve moved the thread that started this discussion to a publicly viewable section: https://elixirforum.com/t/can-you-increase-post-edit-time-limit/6080 With regards to real world problems we have several categories where the first post needs to be kept up-to-date, this includes: Developer Profiles (example thread: Tom - Elixir developer - Dev Profiles - Elixir Programming Language Forum) Libraries (example thread: Meeseeks - A library for extracting data from HTML and XML with CSS or XPath selectors - #4 by brightball - Announcing - Elixir Programming Language Forum) We also have sections for user’s Projects where I would also switch on extended editing for the first post, as well as a Learning Resources category which includes sub-sections that also act as an information resource that may need to be kept updated (we have a dedicated thread for each book, course, etc) I don’t think it’s just this forum that would benefit from it, on a dog forum for example, we could have threads that act as a profile for user’s dogs, on a car forum, a thread for user’s cars etc. More generally, it could be useful for guides, how-to’s etc which need to be kept updated. Traditionally, threads like these on forums become ‘stale’ - it would be great if we can avoid that with Discourse :slight_smile:

Is it possible to adjust editing times per TL or Category?

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AstonJ (AstonJ) 11 Julho , 2017 19:11 13

Unfortunately that’s impractical for several use cases - such as people’s developer profiles, their libraries, projects etc that are all personal to them. (Plus it would add a burden to the mod team.)

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