# Allow staff to edit other users' chat messages **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![jordan-violet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan-violet/32/281428_2.png) [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-staff-to-edit-other-users-chat-messages/237941/6 "2024-05-17T14:14:47Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#): > > That’s the only option available, I think. If a portion of a chat message is undesired (a word, sentence, or image) then you can either leave the whole thing or delete it. There’s no middle ground. Was about to create a new topic but found this one after a second search. I feel this doesn’t need a ton of explanation, but it would be **very** helpful to have the ability to edit chat messages of users much like we can for posts in a topic. This is of course valuable for moderation of all severities, as Jammy mentioned. Sometimes it’s that someone incorrectly described something: - \*X product only allows a rate limit of 5 calls per minute" (when its 5 per second) - Others may see that and think, “That product is bad, not for me, etc.” On a more severe case: We run live events on our Discourse platform now. We have dozens/hundreds of comments coming in. While we have many controls in place to prevent spam/unwanted behavior, it can still happen. This alone makes the moderation of chat a serious need for the enterprise. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-staff-to-edit-other-users-chat-messages/237941)._