I am admin for our community and I have a user complaining about harassment from another user. They said they received negative messages and PMs, but could no longer find the messages.. They copy-pasted a quote they said they found in an email notification. At first, I thought this person (the comp…

[imagen] Daquantics: Is it possible for users to send Private Messages, then delete them in a way that Admins can no longer see them? Nope. It’s never possible for users to delete topics. Ever.

[imagen] Daquantics: So, I’m confused. Is it possible for users to send Private Messages, then delete them in a way that Admins can no longer see them? Not that I’m aware of. Admins can see everything on the site, even deleted content. Users cannot self-delete topics, only posts. PMs, while d…

Thanks for the quick replies, guys – very helpful. I’m 99.9% sure no messages were deleted by other Admins. I will check with moderators but I don’t think they have this capability, right? [imagen] Mittineague: I would use the Data Explorer plugin. I don’t have time to work up a query right no…

Wow, this is such a mystery. My gut is to trust the complainant, but he hasn’t forwarded me the email notifications these quotes supposedly came from. I am so very confused, but not because of you guys :slight_smile: you’ve all been super helpful, as usual. Much appreciated.

On my localhost I had SpamGuy2 message TestUser3. (it wasn’t pretty) There was no option for SpamGuy2 to delete the first post / the topic TestUser3 could have Flagged offensive posts, but for whatever reason didn’t SpamGuy2 edited one of his posts and deleted another TestUser3 could view edit r…

[imagen] Daquantics: email notifications what outbound mail service do you use? with mandrill I can look up and see the notifications for the last 3 months from my discourse. incidentally, there was a renaming at some point from “private messages” to “personal messages” to make clear that th…

[imagen] Mittineague: before the “automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged” has elapsed. It has since been more than 24 hours. As Admin I see “VIEW 1 HIDDEN REPLY” Clicking on that expands the post with the edit revision history icon available [hidden-message-reply]

¿Pueden los administradores ver todos los mensajes privados eliminados?

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Mittineague (Mittineague) 29 Enero, 2018 19:54 3

I would use the Data Explorer plugin. I don’t have time to work up a query right now, but it would involve the user(s), archetype and possibly date.

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How to delete private messages? Product Support	5	3927	1 Noviembre 2017
Admins can clearly see all private messages of all users Feature	2	6297	26 Marzo 2015
How to make it so that admins are not able to view private messages of their users? Product Support	10	2085	9 Mayo 2019
Deleting or dismissing personal messages Feature personal-messages	19	6195	2 Julio 2025
PMs are accesible by admins if the admin has the link Feature	12	1802	2 Diciembre 2021

¿Pueden los administradores ver todos los mensajes privados eliminados?

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