A cheating moderator on my forum deleted several important members to benefit a rival forum, can I recover these deleted members?
As far as I know, the only way is to do a backup restore.
Have you configured automated backups in Discourse?
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if i restore from the backup, do the accounts that were created after the backup disappear?
Yes, they do disappear. Restoring a backup will restore the forum to the exact state it was when the backup was generated.
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20 posts were split to a new topic: Forum being sabotaged by moderators
When a post is deleted, it’s merely marked for deletion and a timer is set. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for Discourse to do the same for deleted accounts? If a mod can delete an account, and if they might be rogue, or their account compromised, all the better if the admins are notified of such an event, and have some days to respond accordingly.
More, I think one cannot delete an account which has a posting history, without first deleting the posts. Adding a rate-limit or quota to mod’s abilities to delete posts, again with a notice to the admins, would make this safer.
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