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

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My apologies, as I know this might have been discussed at length previously, but I am still trying to understand. On a reply by @codinghorror, a while back, he wrote:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-topics-where-are-they/22312/8

Will that mean that, if I want to completely delete a post, I should just hide them? Will the delete removed posts after setting apply to the forum administrator, and thus, the topics/posts deleted/hidden by the administrator’s account be removed after the n hours set? Are posts and topics considered the same, for this setting?

How can one delete uploads, so that the purge deleted uploads grace period days settings become applicable (Grace period (in days) before a deleted upload is erased)?

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So, based on the silent acceptance this topic got, am I to assume hidden posts do not get deleted after 30 days, and thus the delete removed posts after setting is a placebo?

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Okay, I must have missed this topic earlier, but here is my understanding of how that setting works.

  1. A Hidden post is still a post that can be seen by other users, it has the message of “this content is hidden due to community flagging”, or something like that, and therefore it is still “visible”
  2. At 30 days (or whatever you have set), the post will be marked as “deleted”

This does not permanently destroy the post, instead it hides it from regular users to where only staff can see it. Discourse, to my knowledge, NEVER destroys a post entirely.

Uploads in that now deleted post, should eventually be cleaned up via the grace period at the next time it runs via Sidekiq.

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Not trying to be nitpicky, but if delete doesn’t delete, then maybe that word shouldn’t be used. Flagged should replace the current Hidden, and Hidden should be made the new deleted.

I searched meta a lot, and found three years old developer discussions about implementing a real purge. There has been no advances on that idea, correct?

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I am unaware of any plans for a real purge. The only way I know to do that is via the Rails console and calling post.destroy() on the post in question. So it technically exists, but isn’t automated in any form.

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I tried the Rails console approach (found an old post referring to it), and it vomited errors at me, so I decided to hold that off.

The reply I referred about:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/tools-to-permanently-remove-or-delete-spam/5289/10?u=david_collantes

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FYI, in Discourse, we “soft-delete” topics/posts. Meaning the content is still stored in the database but it flagged as being deleted and is thus not shown to standard users (admins can always seem them if they want to).

This help tremendously in dealing with spammers and/or misbehaving users.

@David_Collantes would you mind explaining why you wanted to completely erase the content of a post?

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Imagine a user posts something really sensitive like someone’s credit card information, someone’s social security number, something that we really don’t want visible at all to anyone, or even something that the Legal team in your organization asks you to remove because may become a liability.

An additional factor is that “soft-deleted” posts seem to be accessible not only to administrators, but also to moderators. If you have a forum where community members may obtain a moderator role, this just complicates the scenarios around privacy.

If there is a command-line instruction to delete such posts in exceptional circumstances, that would work too.

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Yes there are …

./launcher enter app
rails c
Post.find(THE_POST_ID).destroy

Note this is 100% non recoverable short of grabbing a backup, so be careful.

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こんにちは、
Discourse は投稿を「ソフトデリート」するため、この Rails コマンドは @icaria36 さんが例示したような機密性の高い情報を含む投稿を完全に削除する「推奨される方法」とみなせるでしょうか？もしそうではない場合、このような投稿に対処するための推奨される方法はどのようなものでしょうか？

このように投稿を完全に削除することで、Discourse 上で何かが破損するケースは思い浮かびますか？

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.destroy を使用して投稿をハード削除するのが推奨される方法です。これによって Discourse が壊れることはありません。整合性を確保するジョブが用意されています。

ただし、1〜7 日間のカウントに一時的な不整合が生じる可能性があります（例：サムは 9997 件の投稿をしたことになっているが、実際には 9996 件しかない場合など）。

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理想的かどうかはわかりませんが、削除されたトピックのユーザー投稿内容を "[deleted]" に置き換えるためにこのコードを使用しました。これにより、投稿の存在は保たれ、完全に削除するよりも安全だと考えました。

# まずバックアップ
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` で確認

ps.each do |p|
  p.raw = '[deleted]'
  p.save
end
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フラグ付きの投稿を非表示にしても、他のフォーラムユーザーから見られなくなるわけではないことに気づいていませんでした。削除までの30日間を短縮する方法はありますか？