Cannot undelete topic/post actions like pinned and split

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A user, jomaxro, reported an issue where certain system-generated posts, such as pinned or split topics, can be edited and deleted but not undeleted. jomaxro bumped the topic, sharing a recent experience where a TL4 user pinned a topic globally by mistake and couldn’t delete the resulting system post without a 24-hour delay. codinghorror suggested disallowing TL4 users from pinning globally due to the potential risks, but jomaxro opposed this idea, citing the legitimate need for TL4 users to pin globally without administrative access. The main issue of undeleting system-generated posts remains unsolved.

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Putting this in feature category as I am not sure it is a bug. Certain “admin” functions in a topic result in a “pseudo-post” of sorts, like pinning a topic, unpinning a topic, and splitting a topic. These system generated posts have the ability to be edited, as well as deleted, but unlike a typical post, there does not appear to be a way to undelete them. Is this intentional?

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Vou ressuscitar meu próprio tópico (bem antigo) aqui, pois acabei de me deparar com esse problema em outro site que administro. Nesse site, temos alguns usuários com nível TL4, o que lhes permite fixar tópicos. Um deles fixou um tópico globalmente, quando deveria ter sido apenas uma fixação normal, então ele desfixou e fixou novamente. Depois disso, tentou excluir a pequena postagem original “fixada globalmente”, mas percebeu que isso ativou a mensagem “a ser excluída em 24 horas”. Não há opção para sinalizar uma pequena postagem, então isso parece ser um bug (vou criar um tópico separado em Contribute > UX, não tenho certeza se é do nível Contribute > Bug). De qualquer forma, permitir desfazer a exclusão ou cancelar a exclusão resolveria o problema, pois eu (como administrador) poderia então excluí-la sem o atraso.

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Hmm I wonder if we should disallow TL4 users from pinning globally, that seems very risky?

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I would be very much against that personally. On the site this report is coming from, TL4 users do pin globally, and have reasons for doing so. This was an innocent mistake that the user realized and was cleaning up. We have a definitely need for users to be able to pin (including globally) but not get access to /admin or /flags.

Edit: disabling TL4 global pinning also will not do anything to solve the original issue, which affects site staff too.