The discussion revolves around adjusting editing times per Trust Level (TL) or Category in Discourse. AstonJ initially proposes allowing TL3 users to edit posts for a longer period and adjusting editing times for the first post in a thread by category.
It is revealed that the default editing time limit is 180 days, which can be changed in site settings. However, AstonJ argues that one setting is not adequate for a busy modern forum and suggests expanding editing options.
AstonJ provides real-world examples, including developer profiles, libraries, projects, and learning resources, where extended editing times for the first post would be beneficial. Mittineague suggests “wikifying” a post to remove the edit time limit, but AstonJ finds this impractical for personal profiles and projects.
Other users, including drreen and Bill_Wyman, express their need for such a feature. codinghorror advises Bill_Wyman to send an email to support with specific requirements.
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).
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?
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.
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.
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, course, 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
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.)
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
