@Steven @cpradio THANKS both ! This concerns me that a topic is never really deleted. There are so many times when users in my community posted their telephone or email address in my forum and later on regret doing that, so they want their personal info to be completely deleted from the forum with no traces whatsoever.
Is there a way for admin to completely delete a particular posts within a topic/thread so that it no longer exists in any form or shape?
Also, there are times when I receive requests from users asking to have all their posts completely removed from the forum, is there a way to do that in Discourse or will it still leave traces?
Last but not least, just so that there is no misunderstanding here, I would like the option to be able to completely delete a particular post within a topic as well as an entire topic (one that contains many individual posts). There are times when it calls for complete deletion of an entire topic that contains many individual posts within and other times I only need to completely delete one particular post from a particular user within a big topic. I hope I do not need to delete an entire topic in order to delete just one particular poster’s post within that topic.