# Collapse deleted posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [20. März 2014 um 23:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942 "2014-03-20T23:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Naatan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/naatan/32/108428_2.png) [@Naatan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naatan)\
**Post date:** [20. März 2014 um 23:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-deleted-posts/13942/1 "2014-03-20T23:02:48Z")

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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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