# TL4s and permission to edit auto-delete topic timers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl4s-and-permission-to-edit-auto-delete-topic-timers/218946>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** topic-timers\
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl4s-and-permission-to-edit-auto-delete-topic-timers/218946 "2022-02-21T12:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl4s-and-permission-to-edit-auto-delete-topic-timers/218946/1 "2022-02-21T12:06:19Z")

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On 2.8 a very useful feature was introduced: `delete merged stub topics after days`. 👍

When such stub topics are “created” following a post merge, an auto-delete timer is created:

 ![Screenshot 2022-02-21 at 11.58.11](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/e/0e9d6d13c4b78e8d96827c92c923a2965b66413f.png)

All good so far.

However, if that timer is ✏ edited, it doesn’t behave as one expects.

Lowering that timer doesn’t seem to have any effect on the actual auto-deletion of the topic which still follows the original `delete merged stub topics after days` setting: once that (visible) timer expires on the new date, the stub topic still remains. Only after the, eg, 7 days there’s an actual deletion.

There seems to be two separate timers here that don’t seem to agree. Perhaps the visible timer shouldn’t be editable? Or, if it is, the auto-delete should follow it’s new value but that doesn’t seem to be happening for some reason.

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