Gelöschte Antworten und Themen - werden sie aus der DB bereinigt oder bleiben sie für immer in der DB?

[janbolmeson]

Couldn’t find this in the docs.

[Lilly (Lillian Louis)]

Discourse does soft deletions by default, but permanent removal from database is also possible.

Introducing permanently delete post functionality

When a post is deleted in Discourse, we perform a soft-delete. This means that post is still present in the database in case an administrator wants to recover it later. A soft-delete is not sufficient when the deleted post contains sensitive information and must be pruned from the database completely. For those situations, we are introducing the ability to permanently delete a post. [image] This feature was implemented under a hidden site setting because of how dangerous it can be, once a pos…