Why does the accepted response message from bulk invited users show that their posts have been deleted?
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Bulk Invite Deleted Posts Discussion Summary
The discussion revolves around an issue with bulk invited users’ posts appearing as deleted, despite not being actually deleted. tisawyer first reported this issue, showing a screenshot of a banner indicating a post was deleted, with their picture next to the trash can icon. However, upon further investigation, tisawyer found that the posts are actually still present when searched for.
tisawyer suspects that Discourse might be making some change to invited users’ posts, possibly pulling them out of a queue or status. This issue only affects some invited users, including those imported from a Mailman list.
itsbhanusharma and [/t/-/138692/4] responded by explaining that staff can see deleted posts with the right links, and the photo next to the trash can icon indicates a direct reply to the staff member. itsbhanusharma believes that Discourse is working as expected, with no unusual behavior.
They may actually have deleted the post (or maybe a staff member did that) this isn’t quite the place where accepted answers show up.
The sample banner shown in my above post appears when I view a message titled “so-and-so accepted your invitation.” When I click on the banner the posts show up with a red background and a trash can and my picture next to the trash can. However I have not deleted their posts. All I did was invite them.
Here’s a screen shot of one of my inviter users 4 deleted posts.
But this is the really weird part. It appears the posts are not actually deleted. If I search for or otherwise find the post they are NOT deleted.
Is Discourse making some change to invited users posts, pulling them out of some queue or status?
Also note this is not happing to every invited user. Also note that at least some of these users were imported from a Mailman list which is why they have existing posts.
Those posts are deleted. Staff however, with the right links can see those deleted posts which are otherwise not visible to a regular user.
And Your photo there means that the post was made in a direct reply to You. It can be something related to the import but I’m not too sure. However, discourse seems to be working as expected, nothing out of the ordinary.