# Deleted Post remaining visible **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244 **Category:** Support **Created:** [April 29, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244 "2019-04-29T13:21:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Donovan\_McNeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/donovan_mcneil/32/139603_2.png) [@Donovan\_McNeil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Donovan_McNeil) #### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244/1 "2019-04-29T13:21:38Z")
OK I am a moderator in a large Discourse environment that recently launched. I saw a self Deleted post this morning and figured it was just my L4 and tag that allowed me to. But I signed on as a L1 and still saw the post with the 24h notice. Is that just the system or is there some setting that was missed. Seems users should not see these posts. ---
### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen) #### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244/2 "2019-04-29T13:42:27Z")
> [@Donovan\_McNeil](#): > > Seems users should not see these posts. Why not? It explains to users where a post went, if staff want it gone sooner, then they have the tools to do so. You also have the option to edit `delete removed posts after` which is the number of hours before a post is removed automatically, set it to 0 and the posts are gone immediately. From experience though that tends to cause confusion, users get a notification of a reply, open the topic and then start support topics to ask where the reply went. ---
### Author: ![Donovan\_McNeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/donovan_mcneil/32/139603_2.png) [@Donovan\_McNeil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Donovan_McNeil) #### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244/3 "2019-04-29T13:46:03Z")
Perfect thanks - Volunteers set all of it up then staff took away our Admin privileges and they are lost - but sense we can no longer see the platform is hard to guide them ---
### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [August 12, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-post-remaining-visible/116244/5 "2022-08-12T21:58:19Z")