# Allow user to edit post that is older than the allowed edit time

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-user-to-edit-post-that-is-older-than-the-allowed-edit-time/43151
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** wiki-posts
**Created:** [25 באפריל,‏ 2016,‏ 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-user-to-edit-post-that-is-older-than-the-allowed-edit-time/43151 "2016-04-25T03:46:31Z")
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13 במרץ,‏ 2017,‏ 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-user-to-edit-post-that-is-older-than-the-allowed-edit-time/43151/9 "2017-03-13T10:47:55Z")

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> [@The\_Godfeather](#):
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> I’m admittedly worried that one day someone will go on a rampage and vandalise all the wiki posts, although it hasn’t happened yet, thankfully.

> [@sam](#):
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> Thing is, if this does start happening the OP is notified on every edit, they can flag and you can ban.
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> I suspect that this is why it is never abused.

This is where my concern lies as well. While I understand where Sam is coming from, I don’t like the idea of relying on the OP to receive edit notifications and alert staff. In the current system, once a post is wiki-ed, it’s wiki-ed forever. As such, (using my example from above), a user may be working on a plugin for a long time the post is made a wiki to allow further edits, but eventually the user stops working on the plugin and is no longer active. Some time later the post gets vandalized. That user _might_ see an email and report it, or they may have left the community, changed emails, no longer care, etc.

This just seems to me as leaving a potential avenue open for attack. After what [happened at Stonehearth](https://meta.discourse.org/t/levenshtein-distance-spammer-emails-should-flag-accounts-that-are-similar-even-if-no-accounts-have-been-marked-as-spammers-yet/49858) last year, (exploiting post edits to avoid spam checks), I don’t like the idea of giving more people edit rights on a post than are needed, and still nearly a year after I started this topic feel is an important feature.

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