New users are presented with a “delete button” for their posts, but when they click on it a message says “You don’t have permission to delete this topic. If you really want it to be deleted, submit a flag for moderator attention together with reasoning”. But there is no flag button either. I think …

Hello, To answer your question as a default TL1 (Basic user) and above can flag posts you can change this via this setting min trust to flag posts

[image] ondrej: default TL1 (Basic user) and above can flag posts you can change this via this setting Thank you for those details. So by default, new (TL0) users do have the delete button under their topics, which when clicked displays a message that says they should flag it, which they can…

I do agree. The reason the user can’t delete the topic is because there are responses, but that error makes no sense under these circumstances, which don’t seem unreasonable. cc @codinghorror

What Hawk said. Seems nonsensical to show a button that doesn’t work when clicked.

[image] HAWK: the user can’t delete the topic is because there are responses When I tested it ( TEST message for flag/delete - Site Feedback - Let's Encrypt Community Support ) it was with a new topic without responses, and I couldn’t delete it either (but I don’t remember if it was before or a…

Yeah we should fix this one @eviltrout . I guess the logic should be “show the delete button, but not if you are TL0, because you can’t flag anyway”? :thinking:

@jamie.wilson can you check this one out? Thanks!

New user can't flag/delete a post

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jamie.wilson (Jamie Wilson) October 27, 2020, 6:19pm 10

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11045

A fix has been merged in for this issue.

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New user can't flag/delete a post

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