It’s currently possible for users to edit and delete their posts that are marked as solutions. This can cause issues (whether a solution is edited maliciously or simply deleted at a later date so removing the “answer”).
It’s possible to lock posts which are edited by Staff. Could this be extended to allow Solution posts to be locked automatically?
(If a user does want to edit they can contact Staff to unlock or to perform the edit)
Not quite what you’re asking for, but you can change post edit time limit to a smaller number.
We’ve yet to come up with a value for that setting which doesn’t adversely affect someone. For example, many of our community members maintain a post which details their hardware configuration which they can link to instead of posting it each time.
Hmm. Maybe make those wiki posts?
It’s a workaround, but who is going to go through 400 posts and set them all to wikis? Or put a single thread in a wiki’d category? Keep in mind it’s also a single example that quickly came to mind. (It’s also bad enough that some users get worried when they see they can edit someone else’s post in a Tutorial category when they reach the TL threshold…)
This all said - the main issue of someone editing or deleting a Solution isn’t changed by the edit timeout as it could happen at any point.