# Forcing Edit Reason?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402 "2019-07-30T13:15:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@bloodshot\_pico](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bloodshot_pico)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402/1 "2019-07-30T13:15:04Z")
Hello,
is there any way to force edit reasons to certain groups or user levels? I just think this would make things a little nicer know why certain people changed what etc.
Thanks for reading.
~Blood
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### Author:  [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402/2 "2019-07-31T00:59:55Z")
I kind of like this as an optional feature for admins. I just checked and it looks like it’s easily accomplished with a theme component. I feel like it will also serve as a good example component for people who want to learn how to develop theme components. I’ll post it once I’ve cleaned it up a bit!
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### Author:  [@bloodshot\_pico](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bloodshot_pico)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402/3 "2019-07-31T01:12:35Z")
Honestly was looking for a yes or no since I’m pretty new to this still, wasn’t expecting someone to go off and make something for this that quickly. :') But thanks for the work I appreciate it. 🙂
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### Author:  [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402/4 "2019-08-01T09:54:55Z")
Here you go 🙂
> [@Require Edit Reason](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-edit-reason/124593):
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> The purpose of this component is to encourage users to add edit reasons when they edit a post. Edit reasons are displayed at the top of a post’s edit history modal and are a great way to understand why something within a post was changed. This might be especially useful for users that are able to edit other users’ posts as it will help to avoid any “why did you edit my post?!” responses. How it Works When someone opens the composer to edit, the edit reason field is exposed and marked required.…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2019, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-edit-reason/124402/5 "2019-08-31T09:54:56Z")
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