# Edit or take down your post

> Change the words of your post, or take it down, from its three-dot menu or from What you made. Here's what can and can't be changed.

Section: Posting · Updated: 2026-10-05
URL: https://commonyard.app/guides/edit-or-take-down-your-post/

## Steps

1. Find your post and tap its three dots (**•••**). Or tap **YOU**, then **What you made**, where everything you posted is in one list.
2. Tap **Edit post** to change it, or **Take it down** to remove it.
3. For an edit, change what you need and tap **Save**.

![The menu on your own post: Save, Edit post, Take it down, Add to a series and Hide this post](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/own-post-menu.webp "Only you see Edit post and Take it down on your posts.")
![Editing a poll: its words in the box, a note that the choices stay as they are, the Move it to choices, and Save at the top](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/composer-edit.webp "An edit changes the words. What people already answered stays.")

## What you can change

- The words of your post.
- For a poll: when it closes, under **Move it to** — now, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week or never.
- For a petition: who has to act, and how many names it aims for.

## What you can't change

- A poll's choices, or the sides of an opinion — people have already picked them.
- The pictures or the video.
- Where it was posted. An edit can't move a post to a different yard.
- Whether it's anonymous.

If one of those is wrong, take the post down and make it again.

## Taking a post down

**Take it down** asks you first. A post that is taken down goes from the yard for everyone, with the replies under it, and it can't be brought back.

## Also in the menu

**Add to a series** puts the post into one of your series as its next part. See [Post a series](/guides/post-a-series/).