# Digital Online Safety **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-online-safety/219425 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [February 25, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-online-safety/219425 "2022-02-25T23:13:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin) #### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-online-safety/219425/5 "2022-02-28T20:42:46Z")
> [@Introducing permanently delete post functionality](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-permanently-delete-post-functionality/207109): > > 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. To use this feature, enable the can permanently delete setting. However, please be aware of the risks i… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-online-safety/219425)._