Slow mode includes edit suggestion even when editing is restricted

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

It does seem like it would be better if the max consecutive replies feature did not count deleted replies against the limit.

@anon44628144, note that Discourse has another setting, “slow mode prevents editing”, which is enabled by default. That setting is the reason you couldn’t edit in slow mode.

I recommend asking the admins at ask.replit.com to disable slow mode prevents editing. IMO, slow mode should always allow editing; I’ve argued elsewhere that the built-in Discourse default (which prevents editing) is a bad default. But at least it’s just a few clicks to change it.

There’s another Meta thread about this here:

Issues when using slow mode on a topic forever

It worked! We had a heated discussion about NFTs on our forum. Enabling slow mode, while disabling slow mode prevents editing helped cool it down a little. Nobody attempted to abuse editing. It’s early days yet, but I can’t imagine that we’d ever re-enable slow mode prevents editing. I’d suggest that in the future it should be disabled (allowing editing) by default for all forums.