# Deleting a post when within edit grace period

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-post-when-within-edit-grace-period/113036>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-post-when-within-edit-grace-period/113036 "2019-03-31T03:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-post-when-within-edit-grace-period/113036/4 "2019-03-31T03:12:03Z")

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The reasoning is that deleting posts is a great way to grief people.

Post “Hey you all suck and you’re idiots!” as a topic (for max visibility) then delete it before people can flag it.

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