Users soft deleting comments?! Bug, misconfiguration or should I create a feature request?

Hi there everyone,

I would like to know if this is a miss configuration or if I should request a feature. Right now, when a user is using a discourse forum, and they delete their message, other users can still access what was deleted.

I’ve seen this cause all sorts of issues. It would be great if moderators could still see what was deleted, but not everyone else!

I’ll give you guys two real world examples where I’ve seen this cause an issue: A non-moderator employee accidentally shares non public information, quickly deleted his comment, but it still took a few minutes for the moderators to catch on and effectively delete the comment. Another example was when a community user accidentally leaked a private software key and the same events followed. Both instances took over 10 minutes for the moderation team to catch on and by the time they did, the damage had already been done!

So, is this a miss configuration or is this something that I’d have to make a feature request/bug report?

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