# 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")\
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**Author:** ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@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")

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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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