We’re running into an issue with users making many helpful wiki edits and then being locked out of editing any other posts. We don’t wish to raise the edit limit, as we are afraid of people abusing a higher editing cap. Would it be possible to make editing wikis not count towards a user’s edit lim…

But if they’re editing posts… Then that’s an edit? Make sure edits are visible and raise the limit. I’m not sure how they would abuse it, exactly. Is that a common problem for your community? Don’t legislate things that aren’t a problem yet. Raise the limit, correct any abusers with reduction of tr…

Is there a way to make editing a wiki not count towards a user's daily edits?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 28, 2019, 8:07pm 4

Get back to us when it actually becomes an issue. We don’t spend engineering time on hypotheticals.

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Is there a way to make editing a wiki not count towards a user's daily edits?

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