# Free to edit post at any time

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-to-edit-post-at-any-time/35516>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [13 Noviembre, 2015 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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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [14 Noviembre, 2015 17:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-to-edit-post-at-any-time/35516/18 "2015-11-14T17:40:30Z")

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The only legit reason I can think of for allowing unlimited edits is pride. eg.

My reply has “teh”, “theyre” and I change to “the”, “they’re” to conceal my lack of typing skill.  
(I usually catch these during the grace period)

I answer

- ABC
- DEF
- GHI

log out, get some sleep, wake and while eating breakfast realize “OMG!! I forgot to mention JKL !!”

Personally I have no problem _posting a follow up reply_ saying “D’oh! I forgot to mention JKL ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/71e448949a1acdf50cf81f2a69b9bebf399c1f1c.gif)” but I can understand that others may have appearances to keep up.

Discourse already has a Wiki feature for posts that are likely to need frequent updating.  
And I would rather get a Notification for a topic that got a correction / additional information post than get a Notification for an aged post that got edited.

IMHO if a topic is old and no longer relevant it should probably get some type of “deprecated” post pointing to the up-to-date topic.

But,if that doesn’t work for your forum, as Jeff said

> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Feel free to set it to years

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