# How can I soft-delete a topic?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-soft-delete-a-topic/28300
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 4, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-soft-delete-a-topic/28300 "2015-05-04T19:34:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-soft-delete-a-topic/28300/21 "2018-10-01T17:29:51Z")

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-soft-delete-a-topic/28300/22 "2018-10-02T00:28:36Z")

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-soft-delete-a-topic/28300/23 "2018-10-02T00:31:40Z")

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To answer the OP.

You only soft delete in Discourse hard delete is reserved for delete spammers when you nuke the entire user.

Approaches you can take when dealing with deleted content:

- There is the log in admin user logs to `/admin/logs/staff_action_logs` to see all deleted topics

- You can use `/?status=deleted` to find deleted topics as staff

- You can move stuff into a quarantine category that end users have no access to.

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