How to make an undeleteable topic?

[Lilly]

also important to note that Discourse only soft deletes posts / topics by default. Permanent deletion requires enabling a hidden site setting:

Introducing permanently delete post functionality

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. [image] This feature was implemented under a hidden site setting because of how dangerous it can be, once a pos…

Deleted topics can be found in your /latest?status=deleted path.