# Expanding editing grace period to hard delete posts?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 30, 2016, 3:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923 "2016-09-30T15:58:52Z")
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### Author:  [@Karin3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karin3)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2016, 3:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/1 "2016-09-30T15:58:52Z")
My group of five writers is experimenting with Discourse as a means to converse, give feedback, and sometimes work together. I am the administrator of the site, but as a small community we want to be equals as much as possible. For that reason the way that the administrator can see soft deleted posts is awkward.
I looked around for a way to handle this, and the best thing I came up with is to expand the editing grace period to 12 to 24 hours. Would that have any undesirable implications? (perhaps slowing things down or delaying notifications) Any other ideas about how to address the issue?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2016, 4:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/2 "2016-09-30T16:02:23Z")
One simple thing to do, since everyone is close friends. Give admin to everyone.
Also, if that suits you, increase the edit grace period.
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2016, 4:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/3 "2016-09-30T16:16:27Z")
Another alternative, if you’re not _that_ good friends, would be for the admin to have a separate account for admin than for normal use. It wouldn’t stop the admins from logging in as admins and peeking at stuff, it would stop the “accidental” viewing of deleted posts during day-to-day use.
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### Author:  [@Karin3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karin3)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2016, 4:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/4 "2016-09-30T16:27:48Z")
Thanks! So editing the grace period won’t have any untoward effects?
I like the separate account for admin idea from @mpalmer, too. I think that would address the problem. At least for a while I don’t want to make everyone admins, just because I want them to feel very free to experiment without worrying about making any changes that might confuse things. But maybe we’ll get there eventually.
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### Author:  [@Karin3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karin3)
#### Post date: [9월 30, 2016, 5:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/5 "2016-09-30T17:44:12Z")
> [@Not receiving emails when mentioned or when someone replies to a topic I created](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-receiving-emails-when-mentioned-or-when-someone-replies-to-a-topic-i-created/38538/8):
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> As mentioned above, this depends on the edit grace period. You can shorten the edit grace period in Admin, Site Settings to accelerate the notifications. But I don’t recommend setting it lower than 1 minute.
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> And just as a reminder, for existing users, they must edit their user preference. Only new users will be affected by the new preference default.
From this reply, which I found in another thread, it sounds like expanding the editing grace period will delay notifications. I’m guessing that means all of them: email notifications, mailing list mode, and desktop notifications. I may expand it some and change my admin account.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [10월 1, 2016, 6:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/6 "2016-10-01T18:26:36Z")
I my experience…
- desktop notifications are sent immediately,
- and email and mailing list mode notifications are delayed by `email time window mins` or `private email time window seconds`.
So both of these should not depend on the edit grace period 🙂