# Delete a post that's no longer needed with moderation tools
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169 "2019-11-22T14:16:13Z")
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### Author:  [@native-api](https://meta.discourse.org/u/native-api)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/1 "2019-11-22T14:16:13Z")
As a moderator, I’d like to clean up a completed topic that has much noise so that it’s more useful to future readers:
- merge useful information that’s scattered across many posts
- delete the posts that are redundant/no longer needed
Of course, I’ll make sure to properly attribute each piece of useful information to its author.
I can do the first item by being able to edit any post. But I don’t see how I can do the latter. The only way I found is to flag them one by one and have another moderator handle the flags (since I cannot handle my own flags 😉 ).
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/2 "2019-11-22T14:50:00Z")
> [@native-api](#):
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> delete the posts that are redundant/no longer needed
As a moderator, you can delete a post by clicking the post’s trach icon:
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### Author:  [@native-api](https://meta.discourse.org/u/native-api)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/3 "2019-11-22T14:53:40Z")
@simon There’s no such icon for me on another user’s post:
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/4 "2019-11-22T14:57:07Z")
> [@native-api](#):
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> There’s no such icon for me on another user’s post:
Are you a moderator on the forum, or are you a trust level 4 user?
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### Author:  [@native-api](https://meta.discourse.org/u/native-api)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/5 "2019-11-22T15:00:49Z")
> [@simon](#):
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> Are you a moderator on the forum, or are you a trust level 4 user?
Indeed, I’m a level 4 user now. I got a notification yesterday that I was granted moderation rights but it turns out, they took them back!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/delete-a-post-thats-no-longer-needed-with-moderation-tools/134169/6 "2019-12-22T15:15:34Z")
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