# 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:** [30.Сентябрь.2016 15:58:52 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://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Karin3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karin3)
#### Post date: [30.Сентябрь.2016 17:44:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-editing-grace-period-to-hard-delete-posts/50923/5 "2016-09-30T17:44:12Z")

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> [@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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