I don’t want to make a thread just to ask this, so since this thread already got staff attention I’ll ask here: Please make it so that edits to a post won’t bump it, if possible to configure discourse this way. This isn’t something that happens with any other forum software afaik.
i moved this out of the discussion, as you already mentioned this is completely off topic. You can be rest asaured all posts have our attention.
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Why do you want this to happen, and/or what problem do you think this would solve?
Well, I have an example, I was looking at some old threads and noticed some typos I made, thought about editing to correct them but it would then be semi-necroed and brought back to the top of the list of recent threads without anything new being added. Also when some user edited most of their old posts to a latin paragraph the other day a bunch of threads popped up to the top again. I think that may be what prompted the request but not sure.
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Maybe a timer for edits and after a certain period of time you can’t edit a post instead of preventing a bump? It would prevent people from destroying old threads and solve the bumping complaint at the same time. Who really needs to edit a post after a week or two anyways?
That timer does actually exist and is enabled by default, but we’ve explicitly turned it off here. I don’t remember why we did that exactly actually… I think it might have been because with the timer enabled, people who wanted to redact or delete some information that they consider sensitive in their older posts weren’t able to do so.
From a moderation perspective as well, the bump is nice because we like to be aware of all changes to the site.
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I remember complaining about not being able to edit some old posts about F-Droid, and then I was able to after a moderator changed something. So the timer probably got disabled for everyone.
That makes sense, especially from the moderation and monitoring standpoint. Just a little frustrating we just had a malicious editing incident and that it’s still open for the future.
Edit: I wonder if there’s a way to tie the editing timer into trust level so higher trust levels could have a longer editing timeframe available to them if it were to be turned back on.
Is there more trust levels than three? I think there should be, tbh.
There are 4.
4th is community leader aka mod. This is all discourse functionality.
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You probably weren’t around at the time, but there was a guy who tried to anonymize their older posts and edited all of them with some random text. The result was that a bunch of old/solved posts were bumped to the frontpage. This, in my opinion, shouldn’t happen.
The person in question was suspended for wasting my time and that is the only rigbt solution to that behaviour.
I know, but I don’t think they did that maliciously. It’s not obvious that a simple edit would cause every single post to be bumped, and (in my opinion) that shouldn’t happen. There should also be maybe a way for the user to properly delete their posts, since editing is not effective.
Editing all those posts was definitely malicious. They turned all of their historical posts into a block of latin that doesn’t even make a ton of sense once translated, and they did that after having a disagreement with someone and saying they’re leaving the community. Poisoning the well as they leave town as it were.
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They wanted to anonymize their post history and leave the forum for good. Not to inconvenience everyone like what happened. At least, that’s my read.
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thats generally not possible. All edits are viewable. we also shouldnt allow deletion of posts as this harms the discussion. Of course when certain details are exposed people can always flag a post and we can take it off. We also offer to anonymize the account which has happend before.
No, he was being malicious. He didn’t even provide any personal information in his posts, and even if he did, it’s clearly written that people should contact the @team if they want to anonymize some of their posts, and only the PG team can do it properly.
He just edited the posts, and if you look at the edit history (which is available publicly), you can see what he wrote before maliciously editing those posts because he got butt hurt after having a disagreement.
PLEASE let me know if I’m guilty of doing this… 
I often edit my posts a few minutes later because I realise I’ve forgotten something important to add.
I always try to contribute the best posts I can.
I do this too 