# User post deletion time limit?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-deletion-time-limit/375900
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 26, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-deletion-time-limit/375900 "2025-07-26T01:43:36Z")
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### Author: ![Rubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@Rubi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rubi)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-post-deletion-time-limit/375900/2 "2025-07-26T04:53:49Z")

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All users? Or only certain TL levels?

`post edit time limit` is what you need to check.

One reference here:

> [@Post edit time limit for Trust level 0 and 1 users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-edit-time-limit-for-trust-level-0-and-1-users/253719):
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> Currently the time limit for editing posts has these defaults: That’s 24h and 30 days respectively. In our community we set the second one to 0, and wanted to set the first one to 30 days, but we found there is a hardcoded limit of 7 days: Any reason why this limit is hardcoded to be so far from the tl2\_post\_edit\_time\_limit default? I’m aware it’s possible to set it to 0, but there’s a wide range of options between 7 …

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