# Free to edit post at any time

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-to-edit-post-at-any-time/35516>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015 年11 月 13 日 07:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-to-edit-post-at-any-time/35516 "2015-11-13T07:38:18Z")\
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作者： ![cregox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cregox/32/115904_2.png) [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)\
发布日期： [2015 年11 月 13 日 07:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-to-edit-post-at-any-time/35516/1 "2015-11-13T07:38:19Z")

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**NOTE:** If admins want to allow edits at any given time, enable the following setting:

```
post edit time limit

```

Set it to `0` to make editing available forever.

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I vow users should be able to freely edit their own posts. And convert them to wiki as they will.

I also understand that’s probably not the case to keep the “conversation flow”. Maybe due to some notification technical aspects. But not all topics are conversations. And there is a big value in updating posts.

Technically there could be a feature to allow “minor edits” like in wikipedia. Those as opt-in, along with edits within the grace period (currently default to 5 minutes) would not trigger notifications.

Makes any sense?

Now, I’m not sure of any of my assumptions… Because of the following context:

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[Searching for “edit post”](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=edit%20post) didn’t bring me any hits on this, surprisingly. I still think there must be a topic about this already (although [marking topics as duplicate would be another feature to suggest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/buying-other-questions/35207/7)).

I’m also not sure if this was a feature in the past (I think it was) and, if so, now it certainly has a reason to have been removed. Why, though? Why can’t we edit posts at any time? At least here on meta, I suppose (also not sure there is a configuration for this).

I was trying to edit [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosted-option/9621/64), just about 3 months old, and [couldn’t](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosted-option/9621/80). Not that I think how old a post is should matter, but apparently it currently does.

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