How do I search for a deleted post that has a specific keyword in the title? Adding ?status=deleted to the basic search URL doesn’t seem to work.

[image] Loki: How do I search for a deleted post that has a specific keyword in the title? I don’t think there is any way to do this through the Discourse search page. I can see how having a filter to search for deleted posts could be useful for site admins though. Data Explorer queries can …

Thanks for the reply. Our mods are not familiar with Data Explorer . For now, we can do a search for all deleted posts (/latest?status=deleted) and do a page search for the word. If it’s fairly recent we’ll find it that way. Otherwise, we can ask you all for help. Can we consider this a (low priorit…

[image] Loki: Our mods are not familiar with Data Explorer . For moderators to use the query you’d need to add the query and then give your site’s moderators access to it. We can help you set that up through our private support if it’s something you’d like to try in the future. [image] Lok…

Hi, this works very well in general, but in the following situation it didn’t: We happened to have the first post of a topic hidden following a flag, which means that the whole topic god hidden. Nothing weird in that, but this topic couldn’t be found with the query, although it was present in the /…

look at this query and modify it as needed. [image] Delete deleted-posts permanently in bulk? Support Excellent, glad to hear that did the job for you. So for the sake of combining the answers, one can use the following in the Rails console to destroy all…

Searching for deleted topics with a keyword in title

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) December 17, 2020, 7:58am 6

@sam is opposed to it as it could bloat full text index, and I tend to agree it’s not that useful of a feature.

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