# Allow staff to edit other users' chat messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-staff-to-edit-other-users-chat-messages/237941>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** moderation, chat\
**Created:** [September 2, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-staff-to-edit-other-users-chat-messages/237941 "2022-09-02T12:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-staff-to-edit-other-users-chat-messages/237941/1 "2022-09-02T12:31:05Z")

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I’m not totally sure if this can be counted as a bug, but because Chat is now acting differently than topics I’m counting this as a bug.

With topics and posts, basically everywhere, an admin can edit everything. But that is not situtation on chat and there a message can be edited only by writer.

If this is by desing and I’m doing more or less another feature request so it shall be: can that behaviour change such way an admin has editing rights over every chat message?

I had one user who send a printscreen with a little bit too sensitive information I would like to crop it more but I couldn’t because I wasn’t allowed edit other’s message.

Sure, I loggeg in as that user and fiex it, but that is not very stylish solution.

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