# On unliking posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977 "2019-05-06T17:11:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/1 "2019-05-06T17:11:28Z")
After you hit the ❤ button below a post, a timer begins after which you can no longer revert that action. I don’t know how long that is, but five to ten minutes it seems.
A user created a topic and has been in the habit of “liking” (❤) every follow-up. And then today realized that one of those posts contains content s/he finds abhorrent. When the user couldn’t unlike it, s/he flagged it for moderation, and us moderators have been unable to assist.
A little more specifics: this is a Discourse hosted install, which I will not name. I am a moderator there, not admin. The topic is for youtube videos, and post liked links to a video that doesn’t break rules, but does treat suicide in a frivolous manner. Apparently the user liked the post, then watched the video, then found the timer had run out.
What options are there?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/2 "2019-05-06T17:17:04Z")
The admin can increase `post undo action window mins` temporarily if needed.
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### Author:  [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/3 "2019-05-06T17:19:42Z")
So: increase timer, ask user to unlike, then reset timer.
And in the meantime (haha), it’s open for everyone to unlike if they want (but they won’t know)?
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### Author:  [@ralph1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ralph1)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/4 "2019-05-06T18:48:56Z")
Staff should be exempt from the post undo action window. Maybe a feature for future addition?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/5 "2019-05-06T20:04:58Z")
Even if they were, there’s no UI to remove a specific like which isn’t your own.
That’s quite a lot of engineering instead of “look before you like”.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/6 "2019-05-07T11:52:23Z")
It’s interesting how rarely this has come up. I agree the workaround is a bit awkward, but.. it’s so rare.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-unliking-posts/116977/7 "2019-06-06T12:03:02Z")
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