Admin Deleting Posts

[Chani_Freedman-Thumi (Chani Freedman-Thumim /Web Design)]

Can an admin delete posts of members?

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Yes. Previously, they could just be hidden, but now they can be permanently removed. See a guide on how it works over at Introducing permanently delete post functionality

Introducing permanently delete post functionality

When a post is deleted in Discourse, we perform a soft-delete. This means that post is still present in the database in case an administrator wants to recover it later. A soft-delete is not sufficient when the deleted post contains sensitive information and must be pruned from the database completely. For those situations, we are introducing the ability to permanently delete a post. [image] This feature was implemented under a hidden site setting because of how dangerous it can be, once a pos…