# Is it possible to adjust editing times per TL or Category?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [16 Giugno 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623 "2017-06-16T15:25:15Z")
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [16 Giugno 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/1 "2017-06-16T15:25:15Z")
Currently it seems there is only one universal option (which seems to be set to one day by default).
If there isn’t a way to change editing times can I suggest the following please:
- Allow an option to change editing time for TL3 users. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.)
- Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. (We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc) Perhaps by TL level too (so if in Category A + TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16 Giugno 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/2 "2017-06-16T19:49:47Z")
One day is not the default, the default is 60 or 90 days as I recall.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [21 Giugno 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/3 "2017-06-21T11:54:40Z")
On mine it says this as the default:
Edit: Ah sorry - I thought it was seconds lol, that’s 60 days.
Are edited posts always bumped in the Latest List? If so I can just expand that to 4 months as a stop gap solution…
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [22 Giugno 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/4 "2017-06-22T05:57:19Z")
Pretty sure edits to posts only bump if the edit is to the last post in a topic.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [3 Luglio 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/5 "2017-07-03T23:18:01Z")
> [@elijah](#):
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> Pretty sure edits to posts only bump if the edit is to the last post in a topic.
I thought it bumped them for all posts - not doing so could be an issue for spam on a large/busy forum..
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4 Luglio 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/6 "2017-07-04T01:14:38Z")
Since 2013 the only way to bump is to reply or edit last post. Note that last post can be first post if post count = 1.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [4 Luglio 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/7 "2017-07-04T13:38:16Z")
Is there any other way to keep track of edits Jeff? If it’s not already, I’m fairly sure this will be exploited by spammers soon - it’s one of the reasons why on other forum software I had the edit limit to 1 day.
Perhaps there can be a queue system for edits longer than a day old? Or edit-time-allowed based on Trust Level?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4 Luglio 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/8 "2017-07-04T20:42:03Z")
There has been a time limit on allowed edits since day 1 of the project, default 180 days, change your site setting to taste.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [4 Luglio 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/9 "2017-07-04T22:14:07Z")
One setting just isn’t adequate for a busy modern forum tbh. What do you think of expanding the editing options? Perhaps something like:
- Allow an option to change editing time based on Trust Level. (It’s less likely that TL3 users will abuse the system.)
- Allow editing times for the first post in a thread to be adjusted by category. We have categories for things like Dev Profiles, Libraries, Projects etc - these are all things where the first post would need to be edited over a much longer period of time.
- Maybe combine the two too, so if in Category Dev Profiles AND TL 1 member, allow editing for 1 year, etc.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [4 Luglio 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/10 "2017-07-04T22:27:49Z")
What is the use case? Describe the real world problem, with actual live examples, this would solve. I do not mean hypotheticals, I mean actual real world situations you have run into that would necessitate this.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [5 Luglio 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/11 "2017-07-05T00:31:58Z")
Ok I’ve moved the thread that started this discussion to a publicly viewable section: [https://elixirforum.com/t/can-you-increase-post-edit-time-limit/6080](https://elixirforum.com/t/can-you-increase-post-edit-time-limit/6080)
With regards to real world problems we have several categories where the first post needs to be kept up-to-date, this includes:
**Developer Profiles** (example thread: [Tom - Elixir developer - Dev Profiles - Elixir Programming Language Forum](https://elixirforum.com/t/tom-elixir-developer/3547))
**Libraries** (example thread: [Meeseeks - A library for extracting data from HTML and XML with CSS or XPath selectors - #4 by brightball - Announcing - Elixir Programming Language Forum](https://elixirforum.com/t/meeseeks-a-library-for-extracting-data-from-html-now-with-xpath-selectors/4315/4))
We also have sections for user’s **Projects** where I would also switch on extended editing for the first post, as well as a Learning Resources category which includes sub-sections that also act as an information resource that may need to be kept updated (we have a dedicated thread for [each book](https://elixirforum.com/t/functional-web-development-with-elixir-otp-and-phoenix-pragprog/4231), [course](https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-for-programmers-online-course-by-pragdave-20-off/6335), etc)
I don’t think it’s just this forum that would benefit from it, on a dog forum for example, we could have threads that act as a profile for user’s dogs, on a car forum, a thread for user’s cars etc. More generally, it could be useful for guides, how-to’s etc which need to be kept updated.
Traditionally, threads like these on forums become ‘stale’ - it would be great if we can avoid that with Discourse 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [5 Luglio 2017, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/12 "2017-07-05T08:25:41Z")
If you “wikify” a post the edit time limit is not imposed on it.
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### Author:  [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)
#### Post date: [11 Luglio 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/13 "2017-07-11T19:11:21Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> If you “wikify” a post the edit time limit is not imposed on it.
Unfortunately that’s impractical for several use cases - such as people’s developer profiles, their libraries, projects etc that are all personal to them. (Plus it would add a burden to the mod team.)
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### Author:  [@anon36484860](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon36484860)
#### Post date: [4 Marzo 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/14 "2018-03-04T15:23:41Z")
Has anyone found a solution for this one?
I have the same issue and would love to see such feature 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bill\_Wyman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bill_Wyman)
#### Post date: [11 Febbraio 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/15 "2019-02-11T14:44:22Z")
I have started a thread and have multi user’s and a lot of the users can’t edit. Can this be changed so that we can continue our grow off contest?
By the way I am garrigan65 I to work for ILGM
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 Febbraio 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/16 "2019-02-12T01:11:20Z")
Can you send an email to support with your specific requirements? We’d need more detail.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2 Marzo 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-adjust-editing-times-per-tl-or-category/64623/17 "2022-03-02T23:11:31Z")