Hey all - is there anyway to disable the notifications that users see if their topic was edited, particularly if it was edited by an admin?
I regularly edit topics, spelling, etc. And Discourse notifying a user of that is… awkward. Anyway to disable this?
Not that I know of, no. It’s an unusual request.
Aha, I found another as fastidious as me! I would like to see a toggle for this as well.
For the record, whenever you’ve edited my posts here, I’ve always thought “hmm… what did I do wrong? Why did he edit my post?” 
And what made me ask this is someone on my site asked why I edited it. It’s just awkward and if it could be easily hidden that would be 
I think a “better” solution here would be to force an edit reason and then alert with that.
So, instead of:
edit glyph: topic title
It would be:
edit glyph: Jeff: fix typo, title link
Downside is that we would have to cull lengths to something sane.
I do not feel this is a better solution.
I have a private business forum and often edit clients’ posts so that things like Onebox work properly (youtube links that aren’t on a clear line etc).
The idea of the forum is to be an accurate record of business discussions and requests, so sometimes clients wonder why I’d be editing their posts.
I’d love this as a feature/option.
I’m also looking for this feature. I had to manually fix hundreds of posts after import (cosmetic edits due to formatting) but didn’t realize it was sending notifications to the users. It was terribly embarrassing, because it sends weird signals when it looks like someone else has edited your content, even if it was actually just formatting. (Revisions are not publicly visible for other reasons.)
The only way I’ve found to get around it at the moment is to SSH into the server and do it through the Rails console.I’ve also had to disable users’ ability to add tags, because it creates more work to have to SSH into the server to change/remove them. Adding new tags to posts is also awkward due to the notifications, so I’m switching to SSH for that too.
Would be really nice to have this feature. I also edit topics and don‘t want to be seen as the guy with ocd who edits the tiny spelling mistakes people make 
Was there ever a solution for this, this makes a lot of sense for moderators of forums. I was told people get an egregious amount of notifications from my edits
Hello @Valcoholics,
What kind of edits do you do that make your users get an “egregious amount” of notifications?
Hi,
We’re also looking for this option.
We migrated from one internal system to another, so we now need to update links for old topics.
We’re generating email notifications since updating the hyperlinks on the topics count as an edit.
It would be great to have a setting to disable topic edit notifications.
Thanks.
Nothing unusual about this.
Users should be able to disable any and all notifications if they please, and for example editing original post should not cause bump etc.
I just tried this here by doing a quick edit to fix a typo of a member’s post, and I see they were notified.
Personally I am inclined to agree with the OP. In some cases a moderator might feel justified in suppressing the sending of an edit notification. But I can also see how it could be problematic if a rogue moderator decides to start editing posts of others.
I do this all the time on several sites I am on (but not so often here on meta) by selecting text and doing a quick edit, simply to fix typos. If I knew the member who wrote the post gets a notification every time I do that I might do it less! 
This is also interesting, as a way to let the member know why their post was edited, to avoid them feeling like they did something wrong. Would make the quick edits impossible, however.
Now when we are living age of AI translations I’m fixing a lot typos and for AI really difficult structures. Hopefully I’m not stepping on anybodys toes, but I would guess the situation would be similar than if out there is a Scots speaking forum 
(meaning, there is around zillion way to spell a word).
Notifications bothered users a bit because they felt I was fixing meaningless typos — as I did in deed. Well, then I stopped that when I realize that I don’t have any way AFAIK to force re-translate. But my point is that from my point of view there shouldn’t be notifications — unless like some percentage of a text is changed or amount of charachters.
I think the dilemma remains that some sites will need to notfiy, and some will not. Even fixing a typo could be noticed later and the author of the post will be concerned about their words being changed.
It occurs to me that the quick edit popup could get an “edit reason” input like in the composer. That would be nice! There is room for it to the right of the buttons. And there could be an admin setting to require a reason be provided when editing. Not all sites will want it but some likely would appreciate it.
This exists… but it’s a bit unintuitive and i dont always remember to
When you edit a post, at the top by your user image, there is an info button. Click to add reason, to which if the edit history is public, then anyone can view the changes as well as that reason.
Oh yeah, I know that exists when editing a post. But the quick edit is what I am talking about.. when you just select some text and then select Edit on the menu that pops up by the cursor. That then leads you to the edit modal I shared above.
That’s.. a thing? With or without plugin?
This iss a core feature in Discourse. You can try it here. Do you not see it on your site?
