# Moderator Permissions to Modify Guidelines?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-permissions-to-modify-guidelines/143220>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-permissions-to-modify-guidelines/143220 "2020-03-03T14:35:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Lehmann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/john_lehmann/32/140084_2.png) [@John\_Lehmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Lehmann)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-permissions-to-modify-guidelines/143220/7 "2020-03-10T10:38:31Z")

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And now I have confirmed it – I impersonated my moderator and sure enough, there’s no pencil icon to modify the guidelines. Is this because system created it? How can I relax this?

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