# Edit old posts in a slow topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-old-posts-in-a-slow-topic/171489>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** slow-mode\
**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-old-posts-in-a-slow-topic/171489 "2020-11-27T12:37:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elvith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elvith/32/199529_2.png) [@Elvith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elvith)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-old-posts-in-a-slow-topic/171489/1 "2020-11-27T12:37:06Z")

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Hi,

In our community moderators like to use the new awesome **slow mode** to keep things calm when a topic goes sideway. More precisely, someone flags an aggressive post, we moderators accept the flag, and then we put the topic in slow mode, asking in a public response for corrections of all aggressive posts before disabling the slow mode.

But this does not work. 🙄 Because users cannot edit old posts in a slow topic.

Is there any workaround? Is it possible to configure the slow mode so that editing old posts is allowed?

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