# Suggest Edits Feature

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-edits-feature/171017
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 23, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-edits-feature/171017 "2020-11-23T14:31:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![RiversideRocks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riversiderocks/32/178411_2.png) [@RiversideRocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RiversideRocks)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-edits-feature/171017/1 "2020-11-23T14:31:31Z")

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One of my favorite parts of StackOverflow and the StackExchange family of sites is the feature to suggest edits to a post. It allows posts to become better and easier to read.

Would it be possible to add something like this to discourse? A forum user could recommend edits to a post. These edits could be only accepted and added to the post by the OP or a forum admin.

If a user sent a spam suggestion, it could simply be declined by the OP or staff.

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### Author: ![toraritte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/toraritte/32/266434_2.png) [@toraritte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/toraritte)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-edits-feature/171017/2 "2022-09-06T13:57:26Z")

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This feature would be very welcome indeed.

For example,

- there are many posts where images are posted as links, instead of embedding them into the post (link rot usually sets in pretty fast, taking a huge chunk of article context with it)

- there are tons of readability features that casual users never heard of (e.g., collapsible/expandable section; I found out about this [from the Prolog Discourse](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/expandable-text-sections/1326) :))

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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: [September 13, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-edits-feature/171017/3 "2022-09-13T07:04:29Z")

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I am not against adding this feature, but it is a massive project and we simply do not have bandwidth to head down this path in the near / mid future.

I implemented the original feature for Stack Overflow and it took quite a while to get right.
