# Community Editing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-editing/12838>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 18, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-editing/12838 "2014-02-18T20:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jae](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jae/32/122449_2.png) [@jae](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jae)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/community-editing/12838/1 "2014-02-18T20:03:23Z")

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As a community, what do we think about the idea of community editing.

Basically, other community members can edit posts (similar to what Stack Exchange does). I feel like one of the biggest things that hold traditional forums back is that they **don’t** have this feature, which causes a lot of confusion when people start using bad grammar/punctuation and nobody knows what you’re talking about.

The obvious arguments against this are:

- **It would be relatively difficult to implement.** I completely understand this, but I would also be 100% in on helping out with the implementation.
- **Discourse doesn’t have a reputation system, making it hard to decide who gets editing privileges.** This could be ironed out by the community, but there are definitely other ways to decide who can edit.
- **Discourse is meant to be a discussion board, not a reference.** Yes, but as I said before, you can definitely benefit from editing posts in a discussion. I’m not talking about editing the essence of a post or adding more information to a post, just basic clean-up

Again, this is just a _very spontaneous idea_ that I had, and I wanted to see what the community thought about it.

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