# Silenced users shouldn't be able to edit posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 6, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547 "2017-12-06T18:37:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![nawthor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nawthor/32/71115_2.png) [@nawthor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nawthor)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547/1 "2017-12-06T18:37:33Z")

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I think silenced users shouldn’t be able to edit their posts. We’ve recently had silenced users go back and edit their recent posts to complain about being silenced, defeating part of the point of silencing them in the first place.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547/2 "2017-12-06T20:47:20Z")

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That’s a good point, @eviltrout we should enforce this.

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547/3 "2017-12-06T20:47:56Z")

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Should definitely be covered by my current work. Added to list.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547/5 "2018-08-15T04:30:35Z")

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Now that we banned likes/flags from silenced users might as well get this in:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/91e0a77a60a128d06c761051994d3faab608b513](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/91e0a77a60a128d06c761051994d3faab608b513)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silenced-users-shouldnt-be-able-to-edit-posts/75547/6 "2018-08-18T08:00:00Z")

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