# Editing Old Posts and Adding Links Doesn't Alert Anybody **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [August 28, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373 "2014-08-28T04:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373/17 "2014-08-28T22:49:28Z")
> [@faoileag](#): > > The only trust signal there is is the number of “likes” received, and you can get those with some sock puppets (which you would have anyway, why only build up only one user to “Leader” when you can have several). One thing that is on our list is to enhance this a bit to: - Likes must be received on (n) different days, where (n) is 1/3 the number, e.g. 20 likes across 7 different days - Likes must be from (n) different users, where (n) is 1/4 the number, e.g. 20 likes from 5 different users. @neil can you make sure this gets done before 1.01 release? > [@kpfleming](#): > > one year is far, far too long The idea is to give users agency over their posts and allow them to control and revise them. But I am open to shortening the default a bit in the name of safety, so I’ll cut this to 6 months. Done! > [@geek](#): > > those links can be given SEO follow as well. It’s going to be very, very hard to get leader (and thus SEO follow) in an exploitative way with the Like requirement changes I described above. **Remember you also _lose_ leader status if you don’t keep this behavior up for every last 100 day period!** Edits-per-day is already rate limited to prevent ragequitting – someone who gets angry and decides to edit all their posts to 💩💩💩 Anyway, just changing the global edit interval is easy enough and I think that’s your best fix at the moment @geek. But there’s nothing stopping a user from drip-feeding changes one per day, these kinds of slow, methodical “attacks” from within are very hard to stop.. if you want to attack a system, and you are the world’s most patient person, that’s a tough combo to beat. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-old-posts-and-adding-links-doesnt-alert-anybody/19373)._