I’m using helm to deploy the bitnami discourse image on a server, and I’m mostly using the API to interact with it. I’m running into the following issue: A user is able to create a topic and then delete the topic soon after creating it. But if a week or so passes by, that same user gets an error when trying to delete a post. Looking at the logs, I see Started DELETE “/t/124” for 162.220.157.139 at 2022-06-20 19:41:43 +0000 Mon, Jun 20 2022 2:41:43 pm Processing by TopicsController#destroy as JSON Mon, Jun 20 2022 2:41:43 pm Parameters: {“id”=>“124”, “topic”=>{}} Mon, Jun 20 2022 2:41:43 pm Can’t verify CSRF token authenticity. Mon, Jun 20 2022 2:41:43 pm Completed 422 Unprocessable Entity in 29ms (Views: 0.2ms ActiveRecord: 0.0ms Allocations: 2357) This is the log of a successful delete: Started DELETE “/t/135” for 162.220.157.139 at 2022-06-20 21:37:07 +0000 Mon, Jun 20 2022 4:37:08 pm Processing by TopicsController#destroy as JSON Mon, Jun 20 2022 4:37:08 pm Parameters: {“id”=>“135”, “topic”=>{}} Mon, Jun 20 2022 4:37:08 pm Can’t verify CSRF token authenticity. Mon, Jun 20 2022 4:37:08 pm Rendered text template (Duration: 0.0ms Allocations: 1) Mon, Jun 20 2022 4:37:08 pm Completed 200 OK in 301ms (Views: 1.4ms ActiveRecord: 0.0ms Allocations: 11569) Even on the actual UI, trying to delete an older message gives me: You don’t have permission to delete this topic. If you really want it to be deleted, submit a flag for moderator attention together with reasoning. Any idea why a user would not be able to delete their own topic after some time has passed? Also, oidc auth is being used to log in. (Keycloak)

[image] Alex Bourge: The user was just able to delete a post that was 16 hours old, and will test a 24 hours old one later today. This reminds me of the edit limits. [image]Trust Level Permissions Reference :gear: TL0 TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 Category Moderator Moderator [13] Edit Posts 24 hrs 24 hrs 30 days 30 days no limit TL no limit I think since the text in the post is changed, when you delete it, this limit affects deletions too. I remember this topic where the edit also caused trouble

There’s a setting. Search site settings for delete and your should find it.

[image] Alex Bourge: Any idea why a user would not be able to delete their own topic after some time has passed? A user can delete their topic as long as it has no replies, otherwise they’ll hit that error. It’s to prevent them deleting other people’s content without staff knowledge/approval.

I think that’s it. I was thinking that there was a delete window like post edit time limit.

I’ve scoured the settings and changed all that might apply to posts, topics, and deleting/removing, but none have had any effect. The posts the user is trying to delete do not have any replies, but are over a week old. The user was just able to delete a post that was 16 hours old, and will test a 24 hours old one later today. Here’s the user and a topic they can’t delete: { user: { id: 20, username: 'molenchuk-tite-99ecd', name: 'teacher firstgrade', avatar_template: '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/{size}.png', email: 'molenchuk+titeacher@weare5stones.com', secondary_emails: [], active: true, admin: false, moderator: false, last_seen_at: '2022-06-20T21:49:19.750Z', last_emailed_at: null, created_at: '2022-06-13T16:33:29.655Z', last_seen_age: 60354.179525574, last_emailed_age: null, created_at_age: 684104.274168186, trust_level: 1, manual_locked_trust_level: null, flag_level: 0, title: null, time_read: 168, staged: false, days_visited: 1, posts_read_count: 6, topics_entered: 1, post_count: 0 }, topic: { post_stream: { posts: [ { id: 127, name: 'teacher firstgrade', username: 'molenchuk-tite-99ecd', avatar_template: '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/{size}.png', created_at: '2022-06-13T16:36:45.485Z', cooked: ' This message is to confirm the system is working now. ', post_number: 1, post_type: 1, updated_at: '2022-06-13T16:36:45.485Z', reply_count: 0, reply_to_post_number: null, quote_count: 0, incoming_link_count: 0, reads: 2, readers_count: 1, score: 0.2, yours: false, topic_id: 124, topic_slug: 'confirmation-data', display_username: 'teacher firstgrade', primary_group_name: null, primary_group_flair_url: null, primary_group_flair_bg_color: null, primary_group_flair_color: null, version: 1, can_edit: true, can_delete: false, can_recover: false, can_wiki: true, read: false, user_title: null, bookmarked: false, actions_summary: [ { id: 2, can_act: true }, { id: 3, can_act: true }, { id: 4, can_act: true }, { id: 8, can_act: true }, { id: 6, can_act: true }, { id: 7, can_act: true } ], moderator: false, admin: false, staff: false, user_id: 20, hidden: false, trust_level: 1, deleted_at: null, user_deleted: false, edit_reason: null, can_view_edit_history: true, wiki: false, reviewable_id: 0, reviewable_score_count: 0, reviewable_score_pending_count: 0 } ], stream: [ 127 ] }, timeline_lookup: [ [ 1, 7 ] ], suggested_topics: [ [Object], [Object], [Object], [Object], [Object] ], id: 124, title: 'Confirmation Data', fancy_title: 'Confirmation Data', posts_count: 1, created_at: '2022-06-13T16:36:45.265Z', views: 9, reply_count: 0, like_count: 0, last_posted_at: '2022-06-13T16:36:45.485Z', visible: true, closed: false, archived: false, has_summary: false, archetype: 'regular', slug: 'confirmation-data', category_id: 22, word_count: 12, deleted_at: null, user_id: 20, featured_link: null, pinned_globally: false, pinned_at: null, pinned_until: null, image_url: null, slow_mode_seconds: 0, draft: null, draft_key: 'topic_124', draft_sequence: 0, unpinned: null, pinned: false, current_post_number: 1, highest_post_number: 1, deleted_by: null, has_deleted: false, actions_summary: [ { id: 4, count: 0, hidden: false, can_act: true }, { id: 8, count: 0, hidden: false, can_act: true }, { id: 7, count: 0, hidden: false, can_act: true } ], chunk_size: 20, bookmarked: false, topic_timer: null, message_bus_last_id: 0, participant_count: 1, show_read_indicator: false, thumbnails: null, details: { can_edit: true, notification_level: 1, can_move_posts: true, can_delete: true, can_remove_allowed_users: true, can_invite_to: true, can_create_post: true, can_reply_as_new_topic: true, can_flag_topic: true, can_convert_topic: true, can_review_topic: true, can_close_topic: true, can_archive_topic: true, can_split_merge_topic: true, can_edit_staff_notes: true, can_toggle_topic_visibility: true, can_pin_unpin_topic: true, can_moderate_category: true, can_remove_self_id: 1, participants: [ { id: 20, username: 'molenchuk-tite-99ecd', name: 'teacher firstgrade', avatar_template: '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/{size}.png', post_count: 1, primary_group_name: null, primary_group_flair_url: null, primary_group_flair_color: null, primary_group_flair_bg_color: null, trust_level: 1 } ], created_by: { id: 20, username: 'molenchuk-tite-99ecd', name: 'teacher firstgrade', avatar_template: '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/{size}.png' }, last_poster: { id: 20, username: 'molenchuk-tite-99ecd', name: 'teacher firstgrade', avatar_template: '/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/{size}.png' } } } }

Can’t delete it from the UX either

And what is the message there? (Then you can find the place in the code that references that error)

This is the message I get [image] Alex Bourge: You don’t have permission to delete this topic. If you really want it to be deleted, submit a flag for moderator attention together with reasoning.

[image] Moin: This reminds me of the edit limits. That must be what I was looking for!

Can't Delete old topics

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 21, 2022, 6:20pm 11

That must be what I was looking for!

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