# "Shadow" link for moved topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shadow-link-for-moved-topics/23121>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年 12 月 13 日午後 8:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shadow-link-for-moved-topics/23121 "2014-12-13T20:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahim123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Post date:** [2014 年 12 月 13 日午後 8:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shadow-link-for-moved-topics/23121/1 "2014-12-13T20:28:24Z")

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Hi, on my other non-Discourse forum there is an option to leave a “shadow” link in the first category when moving a thread to a different category. This is useful to prevent situations where the user goes back to the category he originally posted in and, upon not finding his post, thinks that it was completely deleted by a moderator.

Maybe in the case of Discourse, this could be implemented with an option for the “shadow” link to automatically fade away after the original poster visits the thread, or possibly after a specified period of time.

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