# Collapse deleted posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2014年三月20日 23:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942 "2014-03-20T23:02:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [2014年三月20日 23:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/1 "2014-03-20T23:02:48Z")
Currently when a post is deleted it is only soft-deleted and admins/mods can still see it. This is a nice functionality which I very much like, however what I like less is that these posts still take up as much space as they did before and they get “highlighted” on top of that. This seems odd to me, deleted posts should be made less visible (to those who can still see them), not more. It’d make sense if it showed a very short notice saying “Post deleted by xxx” or something along those lines, then when you click on that expand it to show the original post.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2014年三月20日 23:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/2 "2014-03-20T23:43:56Z")
How frequently are you noticing posts being deleted.
From my experience this is a very extreme edge case, and for those cases mods really should be aware.
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [2014年三月21日 00:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/3 "2014-03-21T00:31:41Z")
In this case I’m talking about posts I myself deleted. I understand your use-case though, but couldn’t this still be achieved without showing the full post? Eg. only show a highlighted ruler of sorts.
Here’s a quick and dirty mockup of what I’m suggesting: [http://files.naatan.com/kVl5/F5HAQnI1](http://files.naatan.com/kVl5/F5HAQnI1).
I’d probably show some more relevant information (first line of post, avatar?) but you get the idea.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2014年三月21日 00:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/4 "2014-03-21T00:58:51Z")
How about this instead? Code reuse for the win. (To see the base I used for this, click @Naatan’s avatar and click “Show \ posts in topic”)
```css
.gap.deleted {
background-color: $warning_background_color;
}
```
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [2014年三月21日 01:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/5 "2014-03-21T01:27:54Z")
Yeah that works too. My mockup was just to convey the idea, it wasn’t an actual suggestion for the design.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2014年三月21日 01:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/6 "2014-03-21T01:41:39Z")
Possibly, I would prefer a semi collapse here as well. It is particularly bad on topics that get spammed a lot and cleaned up.
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [2014年五月5日 15:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/7 "2014-05-05T15:07:39Z")
So any chance of getting something implemented here? It’s still throwing me off every time I see deleted posts.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2014年五月5日 23:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/8 "2014-05-05T23:30:56Z")
Not on the roadmap at the moment. PRs welcome as always.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2014年七月18日 03:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/9 "2014-07-18T03:21:30Z")
Deleted posts are now collapsed by default in latest:
> [@Deleted posts will now be collapsed by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-posts-collapsed-by-default/17699):
>
> Hey everyone - this topic is an announcement for a feature that just hit master. Also, this only applies to forum admins/staff - if you aren’t staff, you won’t notice any of this. Once you update the next time, you should start noticing “1 post hidden” showing up on some topics, and clicking it will expand a deleted post. This is because deleted posts will now be collapsed by default. Also, there will be a “Unhide Deleted Posts” button at the start of the topic, which will effectively expand a…
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### Author:  [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)
#### Post date: [2014年七月18日 15:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/10 "2014-07-18T15:16:29Z")
Very nice! Thanks @riking
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2014年十一月4日 23:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/11 "2014-11-04T23:54:21Z")