Editing, deleting and saving posts
Change a post after publishing, bookmark posts for later, or remove your own.
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Editing
Open your post and select Edit from the ⋯ menu. You can change the title, body, tags, and post type. Comments can be edited the same way.
Edit for clarity and correctness. If someone has already answered based on what you originally wrote, add the correction rather than replacing the text underneath them — otherwise their reply stops making sense.
Deleting
Also under the ⋯ menu. Deleting is not something to reach for when a post has answers on it: it removes the answers people wrote for you along with your question.
If a post is merely outdated, editing it to say so is more useful to everyone than deleting it.
Saving for later
The bookmark control saves a post to Saved in your sidebar. Only you can see what you have saved.
Hiding a post
The ⋯ menu also offers Hide, which removes a single post from your feeds, and Mute community, which removes everything from that community.
Both show a toast with an undo immediately afterwards. Hidden posts have no separate screen to undo from later — but muted communities do, under Settings → Community.
Rate limits
You can publish up to 10 posts and 60 comments per hour. These exist to stop spam and no normal use comes near them.
More in Posts & discussions
- The six post typesQuestion, Discussion, Idea, Problem, Resource, and Poll — each one sets a different expectation.
- Questions and accepted answersMarking an answer as accepted rewards the person who helped and shows future readers what worked.
- Voting, comments and reactionsThe three ways to respond to a post, and what each one does to the author's reputation.
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