Is there a way for the admin of the forum to turn off the ability to delete or edit posts? In the financial industry, there is a requirement that all written communication of any kind be archived for 5 years and cannot be deleted or hidden. Per SEC. Is this feature possible in discourse? If so, can someone show me how?!
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Turning off post deletion in Discourse
sherman_tom inquired about disabling post deletion and editing in Discourse due to regulatory requirements in the financial industry. HAWK suggested modifying settings, such as increasing the edit time limit and removing the delete option, to achieve this. However, Moin pointed out that a large edit time limit would actually allow for longer editing periods, not prevent editing.
Moin also recommended using settings like max post deletions per minute and max post deletions per day to limit deletions. Additionally, it was noted that deleted posts are only “soft-deleted” and can still be viewed by certain users.
Doesn’t a large number mean that the post can be edited for many minutes?
To limit deletions, you can also use max post deletions per minute and max post deletions per day.
In general, deleted posts are only soft-deleted, so while most users cannot see them anymore, they are still in the database and users, who are allowed to delete all posts and topics can still see them.
Apologies, you’re correct. 
Thanks for the catch.