I’m using helm to deploy the bitnami discourse image on a server, and I’m mostly using the API to interact with it. I’m running into the following issue: A user is able to create a topic and then delete the topic soon after creating it. But if a week or so passes by, that same user gets an error wh…

[image] Alex Bourge: The user was just able to delete a post that was 16 hours old, and will test a 24 hours old one later today. This reminds me of the edit limits. [image] Trust Level Permissions Reference :gear: TL0 TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 Category Moderator Moderator [13] Edit Posts 2…

There’s a setting. Search site settings for delete and your should find it.

I think that’s it. I was thinking that there was a delete window like post edit time limit.

I’ve scoured the settings and changed all that might apply to posts, topics, and deleting/removing, but none have had any effect. The posts the user is trying to delete do not have any replies, but are over a week old. The user was just able to delete a post that was 16 hours old, and will test a 2…

Can’t delete it from the UX either

And what is the message there? (Then you can find the place in the code that references that error)

This is the message I get [image] Alex Bourge: You don’t have permission to delete this topic. If you really want it to be deleted, submit a flag for moderator attention together with reasoning.

[image] Moin: This reminds me of the edit limits. That must be what I was looking for!

Can't Delete old topics

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JammyDodger June 21, 2022, 4:21am 3

A user can delete their topic as long as it has no replies, otherwise they’ll hit that error. It’s to prevent them deleting other people’s content without staff knowledge/approval.

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