# Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [2015 年 2 月 20 日午後 7:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460 "2015-02-20T19:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Ajedi32](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ajedi32/32/107370_2.png) [@Ajedi32](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ajedi32)\ **Post date:** [2015 年 2 月 21 日午前 1:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460/3 "2015-02-21T01:31:23Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > You can already sort of do that… either: > > - edit the first post to include the summary > - edit the second post to be a summary > > Or, eventually: > > - add another post and then manually. as staff, change the date on it so it sorts under the first post (not currently possible, but I think it should be) True, but all of those actions would require you to be a site administrator, or at least a mod. Regular community members can’t edit other people’s posts, or mess with post metadata. > [@codinghorror](#): > > The problem is that writing a real summary is real work by real human beings and is very unlikely to get done unless the human being or the topic is exceptional. > > Having a machine summarize the topic by writing is basically impossible.. Right. In the original post I said: > what if Discourse allowed users to create community-editable summaries of long, popular threads So the way I’m envisioning it a human (or multiple humans) would be doing the writing, and I expect this would only actually get done for long, popular threads. That’s why I also made the comment at the end about whether this would get used enough to be worth the effort. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460)._