# 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")
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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@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")

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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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