Community Editing

[Jeremy (Jeremy Banks)]

I agree, this could be a very useful feature. See also the discussion in Suggested Edits.

It’s obviously not as important here as on Stack Exchange, but Discourse could also benefit from “suggested edits” feature that allows users to suggest edits to other’s posts at a lower trust level than is required to edit directly. This would reduce noise that could otherwise be caused by users pointing out typos and other minor mistakes in posts.

Because post ownership is a lot tighter here, edits should probably only be able to be approved by the post owner and moderators. Perhaps we could also allow highly-trusted users, but I want to be careful not to dilute post ownership, so users should be very hesitant to approve edits on others’ posts (i.e. edit approval/rejection votes on regular posts should NOT be incentivized like they have been on Stack Exchange.).