Hi All, I’ve been made a moderator on a discourse-based platform. However, for some reason, posts I delete do not remain deleted. By that I mean, they turn red. But when I refresh the page they appear as normal, as they do for other users/moderators. As far as we can tell. My trust level and user…

This is interesting - are these your own posts or the posts of other community members? I looked around and its not entirely clear to me if theses posts should be deleted immediately (like when an administrator deletes a post) or if they should take ~1 day to be deleted. Might be worth checking wit…

This sounds a bit like a broken install to me.

[image] weallwegot: This is interesting - are these your own posts or the posts of other community members? They are community member posts. When other Mods on the forum delete a post it is instantly moved under a drop-down menu marked ‘hidden reply’. This functionality works fine for all of …

Do other moderators on your site report the same problem, or is this specific to you?

It is specific to me. However, it may be browser-specific as I can delete posts normally when using Firefox. The issue only seems to present itself on Chrome and MS Edge (Chromium).

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) April 29, 2021, 12:33am 7

Interesting, I wonder what the variable is? Have you tried in Chrome safe mode?

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