# Allow for empty posts and empty topic body

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-empty-posts-and-empty-topic-body/318665
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-empty-posts-and-empty-topic-body/318665 "2024-07-26T18:49:34Z")
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### Author: ![sjjh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@sjjh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sjjh)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-for-empty-posts-and-empty-topic-body/318665/30 "2024-08-04T10:00:51Z")

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> [@Heliosurge](#):
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> However Don has a simple solution with the component he has spun up.
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> I would imagine one could also upload a very small blank background gift as well.

Both will probably not work for my (figurative) grandmother, sending an email to the address I gave her to reach the Discourse category replacing a mailing list.  
Such workarounds are out of my experience often rather difficult for users with limited IT literacy and then suddenly things get rather complicated (cf. [Incoming emails trimmed despite trimming disabled - #9 by sjjh](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incoming-emails-trimmed-despite-trimming-disabled/235695/9)) and people quit using Discourse and fall back to Facebook Messanger or the like because its “so much easier”. Which is a shame IMHO.

> [@Jagster](#):
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> So it would be more complex job than just changing some value in the code?

And as I hope/believe that this is not the case, I’m also wondering what potential harm is feared to allow for this (admin) configuration to include “0”.

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