# Let admin/mod edit a post without logging the changes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-admin-mod-edit-a-post-without-logging-the-changes/38622
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-admin-mod-edit-a-post-without-logging-the-changes/38622 "2016-01-28T09:56:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-admin-mod-edit-a-post-without-logging-the-changes/38622/1 "2016-01-28T09:56:26Z")
We used to fix errors and improve formatting for a big portion of what is getting posted in our forum.
However, we started to receive complains: people don’t like when their grammar is fixed. So we stopped fixing formatting and grammar issues for now and would like to change the tactics:
1. Fix errors in messages not earlier than in 1 month after they are created.
2. Do not leave any traces.
It would be good to have a tickbox shown to admins/mods “Don’t record this edit”. In our case, it only makes people angry and disappointed. Some of them are 55+ years old and they feel not so nice when a young person corrects their speech. Yet we believe a better formatting and grammar makes the forum a bit more good-looking and clean in the eyes of newcomers and people who care.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-admin-mod-edit-a-post-without-logging-the-changes/38622/2 "2016-01-28T19:53:58Z")
Did that bother you any 😉
I make typos all the time. Many I catch during the ninja edit window, but I miss a good portion too.
I think topic Titles are more important to fix in terms of spelling errors. They have more visibility.
I guess it depends on how much the error affects understanding.
If I post “It’s to big a problem” does “to” need to be changed to “too” ?
If I post “I like it’s look” does “it’s” need to be changed to “its” ?
Different story if it might mean a search for a certain word would be missed. eg. “intsalled the plugin”
Get into fixing grammatical sentence structure and that’s a whole other can of worms.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-admin-mod-edit-a-post-without-logging-the-changes/38622/3 "2016-01-28T21:04:25Z")
Kind of related…
The most common question I get is:
> It tells me you made a change, but what change did you make?
> I can’t see it.
My response:
> I just changed the category, put it in the right place.
Usual response:
> Oh OK - [couldn’t see that / that wasn’t clear]