Is there a way to see a list of deleted posts? (ie, when users their own posts?) Sometimes I can see these within the thread (with the message ‘post deleted by the author’) but other times, people have got in touch to say that they have accidentally deleted a post, but I can’t find it anywhere. I’…

You can view a user’s deleted posts on their profile at /u/username/deleted-posts So for example if you were an admin here you could see my deleted posts at https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot/deleted-posts

Thank you very much. Nothing shows up on that link for the users in question, so I suppose the posts have been fully deleted somehow, although I am not sure how at the moment.

Can we see the content of deleted post as an admin? currently its being overridden by following message [image]

Thanks, we can see the edit history of deleted topics but its not same with deleted replies, is there any way to see them?

I think its same with topics and replies/posts.

If you’re an admin you can view all deleted posts in the Latest view by using the ?status=delete query. An example would look like this: discourse.yourwebsite.com/latest?status=deleted Note, you will only see the deleted topics if you are an Admin or Moderator. If you don’t have those permissio…

Hi - riding on this thread – is there a way for admins/mods to find a list of deleted posts within a specific time period other than using this link with ‘/latest?status=deleted’? Our team’s legal counsel requires us to ensure all these posts are hard deleted within 60 days and instead of clicking …

[image] Emi: is there a way for admins/mods to find a list of deleted posts within a specific time period other than using this link with ‘/latest?status=deleted’? You would probably need to use data explorer here. A query can be crafted quite easily.

Got it, I will experiment with that. Thank you! :slight_smile:

How to find deleted posts

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 8, 2020, 2:05am 5

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How to find deleted posts

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