# Deleting posts by user
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-by-user/318736
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 27, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-by-user/318736 "2024-07-27T05:40:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@yekta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yekta)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-by-user/318736/1 "2024-07-27T05:40:59Z")
does anyone knows how can I let user delete their own posts forever?
not others’s posts…just their own
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-by-user/318736/2 "2024-07-27T07:47:41Z")
Havw you tried searching fo ‘delete’ in site settings?
> [@yekta](#):
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> forever
They will be soft deleted so not visible to the user ever again unless a staff member undeletes it.
Also, is it just 1 or 2 user posts you want to delete or all of them?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2024, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-posts-by-user/318736/3 "2024-07-27T07:53:15Z")
> [@A user is trying to delete the topic that he has created](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-user-is-trying-to-delete-the-topic-that-he-has-created/315917/2):
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> In general, users don’t have permission to delete the first post in a topic after someone has replied to it. Deleting the first post deletes the entire topic, so valuable replies could be lost too. That’s why they are told to ask a moderator. The moderator could split the replies to a new topic to keep them if needed. To be able to delete replies or topics without replies, the user must be able to edit their post. The post is not removed immediately; it is first replaced with a “this post was d…