If I want to completely delete a post, I should just hide them?

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I’m not sure if it’s ideal, but I used this code to replace the user’s post content in deleted topics with "[deleted]". That way the existence of the posts was preserved, and it seemed safer than completely destroying them.

# backed-up first
deleted_topic_id = 1234
user_id = 5678

t = Topic.unscoped.find(deleted_topic_id)
ps = t.posts.select { |p| p.user_id == user_id }

# `ps.count` to check

ps.each do |p|
  p.raw = '[deleted]'
  p.save
end