# Notification when a moderator or admin deletes your message

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-a-moderator-or-admin-deletes-your-message/18875
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [14 Agosto , 2014 22:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-a-moderator-or-admin-deletes-your-message/18875 "2014-08-14T22:57:28Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [17 Agosto , 2014 06:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-when-a-moderator-or-admin-deletes-your-message/18875/20 "2014-08-17T06:27:02Z")

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Sometimes you just want certain posts to just quietly, softly go gently into that good night – whereas an automatic notification on every post deletion is a banner invitation for a lot of infighting.

It’s the same sort of logic that demanded “you must require a comment on every downvote” on Stack Overflow. Reams of discussion you can read about that on meta.stackexchange and meta.stackoverflow. TL;DR – it’s a toxic and dangerous requirement, and ultimately unnecessary, because there is _nothing_ stopping people from adding a comment if they want to.

I think it’s **up to the mod to decide** if the deletion is a teaching moment, if they have the bandwidth for the teaching moment, versus the headache of sending an engraved “want to get in a fight about this?” invitation every single time something needs to be removed.

I do think it’s a good policy to encourage a PM on deletions, but _requiring_ it (or auto-notification) is quite beyond the pale.

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