# Let Leaders (trust level 3) edit older posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-leaders-trust-level-3-edit-older-posts/17754>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 19, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-leaders-trust-level-3-edit-older-posts/17754 "2014-07-19T19:25:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![hamish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hamish/32/106910_2.png) [@hamish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hamish)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-leaders-trust-level-3-edit-older-posts/17754/16 "2015-06-26T10:26:37Z")

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We want users to be able to edit old posts, so our admin could just set the global value to a couple of years or infinite but, as you said yourself, **the purpose of the limit is to prevent misbehaviour** :

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> misbehavior and going back to old posts and adding in affiliate or spam links without anyone noticing.

… **and users with a low trust level are less trusted to not misbehave**.

Surely a function who’s sole purpose is to prevent misbehaviour is exactly the sort of thing that should be tied to trust level?

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