How to permanently delete a post?

[JammyDodger]

You can permanently delete from the console, but there is now an easier option that will allow you to do it from the UI. You do need to enable a hidden site setting, but you can find the instructions here:

Enable the hidden can_permanently_delete site setting

As of 2.8.0.beta7: Security Release, Fast Edits, Topic Bookmarks, and more there is a hidden site setting to allow admins to permanently delete data. To enable it, you’d set the SiteSetting at the Rails console like this: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.can_permanently_delete=true exit exit This change takes effect immediately. No further action is necessary. Another way to accomplish this would be to add it to app.yml in the env: section. To do that you would add i…