When deleting a post, it will delete the topic itself too, if there was only 1 post, correct? I have noticed that this does not allow the system topics/posts to be deleted. E.g if i want to delete the about topic for category eg https://howtodiscuss.com/t/about-the-insurance-category/15610 Or may-…

[이미지] Deleting "About xxx Category Support These topics cannot be deleted, no. If you don’t want them, leave the default text (so it isn’t used as a category description) and unlist the topic. Users won’t be able to see them.

@Moin I actually followed your advice and unlisted all of them. But whenever i delete any topics using the above console code i shared, all these about this category topics again get created. Now i have to unlist them again, is there any way to permanently delete these so they don’t get created ag…

Writing those descriptions for example?

[이미지] Faizan Zahid: Now i have to unlist them again, is there any way to permanently delete these so they don’t get created again No, they’re necessary for a category to function, the existing text is placeholder and should always be tailored. You need to write unique category descriptions f…

I’m not sure I’m following you. If you unlist them, you don’t have your issue anymore, right? No need to delete them.

When i did unlist them, after some time, they start to show again and get listed automatically, don’t know why. I wanted them to permanently unlist. Is there anyway to permanently unlist these or permanently delete these?

Weird :thinking: Unlisting About topics was advised by @JammyDodger here: [이미지] Delete the inital description topic of a new category Support Hello and welcome @raffoz slightly_smiling_face The ‘About’ topics are special and cannot be deleted without br…

Deleting the About topics

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Moin 11월 6, 2022, 3:28오후 2

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Deleting the About topics

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